One advantage of supposing there are pre-existing worlds which are identical up the point
of differentiation is that it resolves the seeming paradox that an quantum measurement
that two outcomes with probabilities x and 1-x differentiates into two worlds when x=0.5
and ten worlds when x=0.1 and infinitely many worlds when x=1/e. It's easier to imagine
that (infinitely?) many pre-existing worlds just dived up 10:1 than that 10 new ones are
differentiated.
Brent
On 11/16/2014 1:46 PM, LizR wrote:
The MWI can also be viewed as not positing that any new worlds are created, but that the
multiverse is a continuum that can differentiate between previously identical worlds,
and can continue to do this forever, that being a property of a continuum.
How does Wiseman (appropriate name!) distinguish their theory from the MWI
experimentally.
(PS Apologies I don't have time to read the paper at the moment.)
On 17 November 2014 08:32, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Interesting speculative physics… that makes claims that parallel worlds may
be testable.
“A new theory, proposed by Howard Wiseman, Director of the Centre of Quantum
Dynamics at Griffith University, is different. No new universes are ever
created.
Instead many worlds have existed, side-by-side, since the beginning of
time. “
Regarding the interference patterns detected by the single electron double
slit
experiment (first performed in 1974 at University of Bologna)
According to Wiseman and his team this interaction between parallel worlds
leads to
just the type of interference patterns observed – implying electrons are
not waves
after all. They have supported their theory by running computer simulations
of the
two-slit experiment using up to 41 interacting worlds. “It certainly
captured the
essential features of peaks and troughs in the right places,” says Wiseman.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physical-sciences/can-we-test-parallel-worlds
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