[FRIAM] The fruits of abduction

[Roger Critchlow]

>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/

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