>From an article by Philip Ball: The problem is that Born’s rule was not really more than a smart guess — > there was no fundamental reason that led Born to propose it. “It was an > intuition without a precise justification,” said Adán Cabello > <https://personal.us.es/adan/home.htm>, a quantum theorist at the > University of Seville in Spain. “But it worked.” And yet for the past 90 > years and more, no one has been able to explain why.
Born's rule is that the square of Schrodinger's wave function should be the probability of a quantum particle observation. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-born-rule-has-been-derived-from-simple-physical-principles-20190213/ -- rec --
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