Quantum mechanics, the dreams stuff is made of… (David Moser)
A quantum particle, prisoner in a square box of infinite walls, starts out with minimal energy, which grows and grows, slowly… although, no matter how much energy it gathers, no matter it grows quadratically… it will never escape…
You can also see it as the vibrational modes of a square drum. It looks continuous because I interpolated between them for a smoother visualization…
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