Wrong. Renormalization multiples the total energy in the multiverse. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard Ruquist wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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. >> > > Renormalizing the (collapsed) wave function for a branch does not affect > the wave function of the multiverse. The procedure is ugly, but doesn't > lead to difficulties. > > 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.
