On 22 January 2014 16:34, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/21/2014 4:50 PM, LizR wrote: > >> It seems to me that differentiation is local, and spreads slowly, and >> that there is always going to be some remerging (but only in proportion to >> the chances of entropy reversing). The an atom starts in a superposition of >> decayed and non-decayed. Now a cat is in a superposition of alive and dead. >> Now an experimenter is in a superposition of having seen an alive and dead >> cat... now everyone who reads "Nature" is in a superposition ... but none >> of this affects Jupiter for a long time, >> > > Does it? Suppose there's an electron on Jupiter that was entangled in a > singlet state with an electron on Earth and the electron on Earth just got > it's spin measured? MWI may be able to model this with a local hidden > variable, but in THIS world it looks like FTL influence - and it can go a > lot further than Jupiter, e.g. the CMB. > > Assuming this is correct then the "snapshot" theory of how the MWI operates looks more a lot likely. (I was given to believe by David Deutsch that differentiation only occurred patchily, and spread slowly, but I've known him to be wrong...)
Please explain further. How does an electron on Jupiter get entangled with one on Earth, and how does anything on Earth get entangled with the CMB? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
