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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Quantum Field Theory
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 02:10:35 EDT
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> 	It is interesting that you pointed out that the wave
> function is not distributed in space.  I find this to be one
> of the most disturbing properties of quantum mechanics.  The
> wave function is distributed in configuration space, i.e. the
> space of all possible CONFIGURATIONS of the system.  For classical
> n-particaal systems this configuration space has 3n dimensions.

As an added twist you might consider isospin.  It behaves like spin or
angular momentum except that it lives in isospin space.  Its not the 3
dimensional space that we live in!