Re: The fruits of abduction

Posted by lrudolph on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-fruits-of-abduction-tp7592640p7592641.html

> 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.

Isn't that what an "Ansatz" is?  (A quick Googling suggests maybe not.
But it seems similar to me...)


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