On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 3:00:35 PM UTC-7, scerir wrote: > > Nevertheless, the SWE does not give a probability without some further > assumptions. Why do you think that MWI advocates spend so much time an > effort trying to derive the Born rule? You cannot get probabilities from > the Schroedinger equation without some additional assumptions. > > Bruce > > In his Nobel lecture (The statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics, > 1954) > Born writes: "Again an idea of Einstein’s gave me the lead. He had tried > to make the duality of particles - light quanta or photons - and waves > comprehensible by interpreting the square of the optical wave amplitudes as > probability density for the occurrence of photons. This concept could at > once be carried over to the psi-function: |psi|^2 ought to represent the > probability density for electrons (or other particles). It was easy to > assert this, but how could it be proved?" >
How could any of the postulates of QM "be proved"? All we can do is make assumptions and determine if they give good predictions. (Have you seen my email?) AG -- 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/5e659c93-1257-4d02-8481-b0dbef3bc7f9%40googlegroups.com.
