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from looking like a parabola;
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at the bottom of the curve it looks like a parabola.
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So this is the way atoms should behave
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when they're attached by bonds -- approximately.
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Okay, now remember that doggerel poem from 1926:
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"We only wish that we could glean an inkling of
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what Ψ could mean."
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What have we used Ψ for so far?
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We used it -- its not going to infinity --
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to find out when we guessed the energy right.
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It was just a tool
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for telling us whether we had the right energy.