On 11/29/2014 9:24 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:42 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
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
Is this any different from Wei Dai's interpretation of quantum mechanics, described
here: http://www.weidai.com/qm-interpretation.txt
Wei Dai's formulation says there is no temporal connection between psi(t,x) and
psi(t',x'), but then he has to explain the appearance of temporal causality as just an
accident whereby some psi functions are more common or have more weight. I don't see how
that can work. It introduces the problem of everythingism, but quantum mechanics doesn't
allow that *everything* happens.
Brent
Jason
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
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<mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>> 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.
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