arXiv:2006.14175

Born's rule from almost nothing

Sabine Hossenfelder

Published Jun 25, 2020• 4 citations

Abstract

We here put forward a simple argument for Born's rule based on the requirement that the probability distribution should not be a function of the number of degrees of freedom.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.14175

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