On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:50 PM John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 7:57 PM 'Brent Meeker < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > >> >> Many Worlds could be called Austere Quantum Mechanics because it adds >> nothing to Schrödinger's Equation because nothing more is needed to explain >> observations. >> >> >> * > You still need the Born rule, including its intepretation as a >> probability.* >> > > Every quantum interpretation needs the Born rule, but it comes pretty > naturally. If you square the amplitude of the Schrödinger wave you > automatically get numbers that are positive and unitary, that is the always > add up to exactly 100%. And those are 2 properties a probability must have, > negative probability has no meaning and there is always a 100% chance > SOMETHING will happen. > The fact that the squared amplitudes add up to unity is not particularly surprising when you have normalised the wave function! Showing that this is a probability is a whole other kettle of bananas. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTT-kurjSOhc6zvCQoEEXw2_CFuH4HyN8JWvqp8brFn5A%40mail.gmail.com.
