The Born Rule by Alicia Sometimes

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amplitudes oscillating
predictions            likely

By Alicia Sometimes

The Born Rule — a formula for assigning outcome probabilities — is extremely complex for someone like me who hasn’t studied physics but I am intrigued in its history and its purpose.

Marc-Oliver Pleinert et al. (2020) test Born’s law using many-particle interferences. This article Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch by Philip Ball was inspiring and helped me navigate some intricacies of the Born Rule and put it in a wider context.

Original research: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.012051

Alicia Sometimes is an Australian poet, writer and broadcaster. She has performed her spoken word and poetry at many venues, festivals and events around the world. Her poems have been in Best Australian Science Writing, Best Australian Poems and more. She is director and co-writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. She is currently a Science Gallery Melbourne ‘Leonardo’ (creative advisor). Her TedxUQ talk in 2019 was about the passion of combining art with science. You can catch up with her on Twitter @aliciasometimes and at her website www.aliciasometimes.com

Enjoyed Alicia’s sciku? Check out her other poems ‘Antimatter’ and ‘Axiogenesis‘.

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