The fruits of abduction
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Roger Critchlow-2 on
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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, 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.
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