I could not find who suggested Plaga's paper recently, but thanks to whoever it was. Whether Plaga is right or wrong, his introductory remarks and general presentation are simply superb.
There is even the very noteworthy (or humorous, I can't decide) sentence which reads "Independent of what one thinks about the MWI a priori, this is also a very systematic way to make experimental progress in the question of the interpretation of QM, because in the MWI the predictions for any conceivable experiment are free from philosophical subtleties...(!)" Lee P.S. Thanks also to Saibal: > Plaga's paper has been published: > "Proposal for an experimental test of the > many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/9510/9510007.pdf Found.Phys. 27 (1997) 559 arXiv: quant-ph/9510007 > -----Original Message----- > From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:51 PM > To: everything-list@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: Plaga > > We discussed Plaga's paper back in June, 2002. I reported some skeptical > analysis of the paper by John Baez of sci.physics fame, at > http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3686.html . I also gave some > reasons of my own why arbitrary inter-universe quantum communication > should be impossible. > > Hal Finney
