A while back Peter Jones and Brent Meeker independently pointed out the
illogicality of my non-acceptance of both MWI AND "wave-collapse" as
explanations of "quantum weirdness." They seemed to say that the
explanation had to be one or the other. Now I've read what Colin
Hales has to say. I find his statements express the reservations I
feel.
He writes (slightly paraphrased), ". . . a mathematical model
(quantum mechanics) that seems to imply multiple universes does not mean that
they exist. . . Only that the model makes it look like they do. I can
imagine any number of situations where the fuzziness of the ultra-scale world
obeys the rules of a QM-like model. For example, the perfectly
deterministically repeated trajectory of whatever an electron is made of through
35.4 spatial dimensions is going to look awfully fuzzy to critters observing it
as . . . three dimensions. QM depicts fuzziness... and 'aha' the
universe is made of QM? Not so. It merely appears to obey the
abstraction QM provides us.
"QM says nothing about what the universe is actually constructed of. It is not constructed of quantum mechanics! It is constructed of something that behaves quantum mechanically."
"QM says nothing about what the universe is actually constructed of. It is not constructed of quantum mechanics! It is constructed of something that behaves quantum mechanically."
Thank you, Colin Hales. I believe your remarks apply to any
theory. Theories are descriptions of what we think reality may be - they
are not reality.
Norman Samish
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