{"id":405,"date":"2022-01-26T18:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/?p=405"},"modified":"2022-01-26T18:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:32:37","slug":"what-is-the-problem-associated-with-solving-klein-gordon-partial-differential-equations-quora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2022\/01\/26\/what-is-the-problem-associated-with-solving-klein-gordon-partial-differential-equations-quora\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the problem associated with solving Klein-Gordon partial differential equations? &#8211; Quora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no problem with <i>solving<\/i> the Klein-Gordon Equation. It\u2019s just that <i>some<\/i> of the solutions have a form for which [math]H\\Psi=i\\frac{d\\Psi}{dt}=E\\Psi[\/math] with arbitrarily large negative values of [math]E[\/math]. If we were to try to interpret the solution as a quantum wavefunction this would correspond to having no lower bound on the energy &#8211; which is physically unstable.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-is-the-problem-associated-with-solving-Klein-Gordon-partial-differential-equations\/answer\/Alan-Cooper-5?prompt_topic_bio=1\">(128) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to What is the problem associated with solving Klein-Gordon partial differential equations? &#8211; Quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no problem with solving the Klein-Gordon Equation. It\u2019s just that some of the solutions have a form for which [math]H\\Psi=i\\frac{d\\Psi}{dt}=E\\Psi[\/math] with arbitrarily large negative values of [math]E[\/math]. If we were to try to interpret the solution as a quantum wavefunction this would correspond to having no lower bound on the energy &#8211; which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2022\/01\/26\/what-is-the-problem-associated-with-solving-klein-gordon-partial-differential-equations-quora\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is the problem associated with solving Klein-Gordon partial differential equations? &#8211; Quora<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[30],"topics":[29,14],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-quora-answers","tag-negative-energy","topics-klein-gordon-equation","topics-quantum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}