On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *There are many 1p views* > Yes. > *and for each the probability of that particular observation is one* > Yes, AFTER Bruce Kellett has observed that the electron went left rather than right then the probability the electron had gone left rather than right is exactly precisely 1. And that proves that making accurate predictions is very very easy if one is permitted to make the predictions AFTER the events in question have happened. > contradicting the Born rule calculation of the probability in every case. > No, the Born rule Is about making a prediction BEFORE the event has happened not AFTER. > > *The Born rule cannot be deduced from the Schrodinger equation* > That is true. The Schrodinger equation just says for every particle there is a wave that is associated with it, the equation says nothing about what is waving, it doesn't even say if that wave has any observable consequences; for that you need a quantum interpretation. The Born Rule is a quantum interpretation. Max Born advanced the idea because from experiments it was shown to have worked and for no other reason. Max Born noticed that if Max Born took the square of the absolute value of the wave function at a point it would provide the probability that Max Born would be able to observe that particle at that point. For example, Max Born noticed that if Max Born assumed that the square of the absolute value of the wave function at a point was a probability and if it said the electron was 60% likely to go left and 40% likely to go right under the specified experimental conditions and the experiment was repeated many times with the same conditions then Max Born would observe the electron go left about 60% of the time and right about 40% of the time, and the more times the experiment was repeated the closer it would get to that 60/40 ratio. > *they are incompatible.* > If there is one thing that we know for certain about Quantum Mechanics it's that the Born Rule WORKS, so if the Schrodinger Equation was incompatible with the Born Rule then the Schrodinger equation would be a useless piece of garbage. It's not. John K Clark -- 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/CAJPayv0VRBiYs%2B9p0LASSD9zdZQUPngcZfsRgW_rqd4x1M21rw%40mail.gmail.com.
