理论化学介绍

Instead, one uses experimental observation to postulate a rule or equation or
theory, and one then tests the theory by making predictions that can be tested by further
experiments. If the theory fails, it must be refined, and this process continues until one
has a better and better theory. In this sense, quantum mechanics, with all of its unusual
mathematical constructs and rules, should be viewed as arising from the imaginations of
scientists who tried to invent a theory that was consistent with experimental data and
which could be used to predict things that could then be tested in the laboratory. Thus far,
this theory has proven to be reliable, but, of course, we are always searching for a new
and improved theory that describes how small light particles move.