On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 24 Nov 2014, at 11:35, Richard Ruquist wrote: >> >> With MWI thinking, every detector will detect a photon at the same >>> energy and frequency as the original photon but in a different world. So >>> the total energy in the multiverse will locally have increased by the >>> number of detectors times the photon energy. The only way to conserve >>> energy is to detect only one photon of the same energy and frequency as the >>> original photon. >>> >> >> ... or the conservation of energy is something which has to be accounted >> in branches, not in the multiverse. >> > > > I don't think so. The multiverse is described by the SWE, and that is just > a unitary transformation in Hilbert space. It satisfies energy conservation > by construction (time translation invariance and Noether's theorem). > > You have to renormalize in each branch to get the observed branch-wise > energy conservation -- conservation is automatic only for the multiverse. Renormalization increases the energy of the multiverse. No conservation. No renormalization results in chaos. > > > Bruce > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
