Quantum Biology and wave nature

 

In this wonderful book, they make a brilliant analogy that I'd never heard about what the probability wave could be like. They suggest that a famous robber escapes from prison and the police try to track. Obviously the police can guess how far the robber will go in a given time, but that gives them a search area where there is a high probability of finding the robber rather than a definite location. Also, certain types of property might be more at risk of robbery so the probability of finding the robber there will be higher. As time goes by, the area expands so it is like a wave of probability. The weakness in the brilliant analogy, they explain, is that the robber is actually always at one definite location but that is not true for something like an electron until it is observed and the wave function collapses - ie there is certainty not probability.