On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 7:50 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 7:57 PM 'Brent Meeker < > [email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTT-kurjSOhc6zvCQoEEXw2_CFuH4HyN8JWvqp8brFn5A%40mail.gmail.com.
