Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

On 14 Jun 2017, at 19:11, John Clark wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​>> ​Even the 2-slit experiment will not produce interference if you remove the photographic plate and just allow the photons to continue into infinite space after they

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

On 14 Jun 2017, at 01:06, Bruce Kellett wrote: You seem to be taking the older view of many worlds that is favoured by David Deutsch. This approach has serious problems with the notorious basis problem, and there does not seem to be any principled way from within the theory to select

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: ​> ​ > If you take the wave function seriously, then you take > ​ ​ > seriously that qubits really do exist in a superposition of states, > ​ ​ > and this explains the exponential increase in computational power as >

Re: A thought on MWI and its alternative(s)

On 15 Jun 2017, at 06:59, Bruce Kellett wrote: On Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at 10:19:56 AM UTC+10, Brent wrote 6/13/2017 4:11 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > The reason why it would follow is precisely the point of my rhetorical > question above. If you take the wave function seriously, then you