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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/5e659c93-1257-4d02-8481-b0dbef3bc7f9%40googlegroups.com.
