This is an extremely important and, for now, serious question, because there is no clear boundary between classical physics (and mathematics) and quantum physics, neither today nor in the near future.

The years 1925-1927 saw the explosion of the new science called quantum mechanics, thanks to Schrödinger's PDEs and Heisenberg's quantum matrix.

The first preliminary attempt at a rigorous answer to this particular question took place in 1927, when the world's 30 greatest scientists met in Copenhagen with the sole aim of finding a single, satisfactory answer.

The result of the Copenhagen conference was a scientific disaster: the 30 greatest scientists of the time arrived at inconsistent, even contradictory, answers. However, we all know that Nil Bohr, president of the conference and learned society at the time, created an even greater disaster, even a scandal, by silencing the world with his injunction: "Shut up and calculate!"

Today, after 100 years, what is the situation?

The inflexible and indoctrinated defenders of Schrödinger's partial differential equation (this partial differential equation is known to be incomplete and misleading) are adding ever more erroneous and misleading applications day after day.

We believe that the crux of their erroneous and misleading applications lies in the lack of a rigorous definition of probability.

Their primitive mathematical definition of probability is laughable, and their mathematical definition of the stationary statistical distribution is almost sarcastic.

So what?

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