Taking on the Borne rule is a tall order. It’s up there with P vs NP by the amount of effort expended by extremely smart people. It is quite likely that it would emerge from integrating general relativity with quantum mechanics somewhere at the level where irreversible classicality emerges, probably for the objects on the order of the Planck mass (10^19 atoms).
Taking on the Borne rule is a tall order. It’s up there with P vs NP by the amount of effort expended by extremely smart people. It is quite likely that it would emerge from integrating general relativity with quantum mechanics somewhere at the level where irreversible classicality emerges, probably for the objects on the order of the Planck mass (10^19 atoms).
I just find it mighty suspicious that when you add two amplitudes of unknown phase, their Born probabilities add:
But, judging from the lack of object-level comments, no one else finds this suspicious. My conclusion is that I should update my suspicious-o-meter.
The way probabilities are calculated is quite constrained. The Kochen–Specker theorem might be a worthwhile place to start from.