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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Born Rule and the Schrodinger Equation

There are things called wave functions. And as the name sort of implies, they kind of wave. They undulate in a way that is perfectly predictable through the beautiful mathematics of the Schrodinger equation. Then there's this other thing called the Born Rule. The Born Rule doesn't look like a normal law of nature. Right? So that there are these things that are so hard. That's fine. We could be dramatic and new. Exactly. But the Born Rule also- They get their max born, not the concept of being born. Yes. Named after max born in the same way that theSchrodinger equation is named after Erwin Schrodinger.

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