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> The Copenhagen interpretation makes a leap of faith with the Born Rule as it is based on Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.

The Born rule was introduced in Born's paper on description of a scattering experiment with help of the \psi function that is a solution of Schroedinger's equation. Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics had nothing to do with it.



Because thermodynamics at the time espoused normally distributed error as dictated by Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics; Born used a normalized wave function to solve Schroedinger's equation.

Thermodynamics and Linear Algebra have gotten more advanced, since then.




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