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What is the physical significance of the wave function?

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What is the physical significance of the wave function?

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What is the physical significance of the wave function?

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The wavefunction,  itself has no direct physical meaning. But , the probability of finding the electron in a certain region of space is proportional to the square of the wavefunction, . The idea of relating  to probability stemmed from a wave theory correlation.

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