Point take, Jason. I am interested in using scientific theory and praxis to benefit the species. I always have the practical in mind, even in the purest of intellectual pursuits.
Mitch As Max Tegmark said, we don't need to observe parallel universes to accept them. If they are a prediction of other theories that are testable, then we can test those theories to test the idea that the parallel universes exist. And as Everett said, MWI is falsifiable because QM is falsifiable. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Nov 29, 2014 7:18 pm Subject: Re: Can we test for parallel worlds? On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:21 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: Remember the 90's US scifi series, called Sliders? Like that. Otherwise, we're dealing with conjecture. Or the teapot circling Jupiter, which we can do today, if we spent the money. Maybe Fermi's Great Silence is because its easier to trade with different versions of one's homeworld, then put the time and energy into interstellar travel, or they achieve world-line travel and destroy themselves with conflicts, interworld-world. As Max Tegmark said, we don't need to observe parallel universes to accept them. If they are a prediction of other theories that are testable, then we can test those theories to test the idea that the parallel universes exist. And as Everett said, MWI is falsifiable because QM is falsifiable. Jason -----Original Message----- From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Nov 17, 2014 6:51 am Subject: Re: Can we test for parallel worlds? On 16 Nov 2014, at 22:54, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: If we can't interact with world 2, then its as if it doesn't exist. Then it would not interfere. It is the whole point of the quantum: the different terms of the waves can interfere, so we can't make them disappear, even if we can't have branch-branch interaction: se still have the branch-branch interferences. Bruno Just as if there was a super civilization in the Sombrero Galaxy, but they can never interact with us, nor we, with them. It resolves, from a human point of view to Never-Never Land. On the other hand if we somehow can do FTL travel or communication, or build Hyper-Tesla magnets and thus open up worldline commerce, then its a mathematical hack used by physicists to amaze family and friends! -----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 4:46 pm Subject: Re: Can we test for parallel worlds? 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]> 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 -- 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]. 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