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tion representing the continuous shape of the string or membrane. Clearly,
frequency and shape of a vibration are two different aspects of one and the
same phenomenon, and there is nothing mysterious with one phenomenon
having several aspects, like e.g. weight and form. But modern physics has
managed to turn this into something completely mysterious by asking the different
aspects to be one and same, but at the same time different, expressed
as “duality” and “complementarity” in the physics of Bohr...
Figure 6.2: The harmonics (eigenvalues) of a vibrating guitar string (eigenfunction).
To confuse eigenvalue with eigenfunction is silly.
6.4 Damned Quantum Jumping
Erwin Schrödinger invented the mathematics of quantum mechanics as the
Schrödinger wave equation, but when he saw his creation being sold out to