063
Born rule
One measurement lands at random. Many measurements of the same state build the curve the equation predicts.
Field
Detail
Study
063
Chapter
Quantum basics
Equation
P(x) = |ψ(x)|²
What moves
N, the number of measurements; n, the state
Structure
Film
Colour means
blue, the computed probability; white, each result
Posted

A particle in a box is prepared in the same state, and its position is measured. The cloud is the computed probability, |ψ(x)|².
Each result lands as one point, and where it lands cannot be calculated in advance. Every point comes from a newly prepared particle, not the same one measured again. A thousand results pile up and come close to the computed curve.
The same is done for n = 1, 2 and 3: one peak, then two with a zero in the middle, then three. Each result is random; the shape they build is the same every time. The points are seeded draws from |ψ|², not laboratory data.