> On 21 Nov 2019, at 00:28, Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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”?
In arithmetic, when assuming Mechanism. QM has to become a theorem or … Mechanism is refuted. The only thing that we cannot prove is x + 0 = x, etc. Bruno > 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] > <mailto:[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 > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/5e659c93-1257-4d02-8481-b0dbef3bc7f9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/F4BCBA1A-7CCC-46F4-8E40-A36D25E00FF0%40ulb.ac.be.
