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In July 2011, participants at a conference on the placid shore of Lake Traunsee in Austria
were polled on what they thought the meeting was about. You might imagine that this
question would have been settled in advance, but since the broad theme was quantum theory,
perhaps a degree of uncertainty was to be expected. The title of the conference was
‘Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality’. The poll, completed by 33 of the
participating physicists, mathematicians and philosophers, posed a range of unresolved
questions about the relationship between those two things, one of which was: ‘What is your
favourite interpretation of quantum mechanics?’
The word ‘favourite’ speaks volumes. Isn’t science supposed to be decided by experiment
and observation, free from personal preferences? But experiments in quantum physics have
been obstinately silent on what it means. All we can do is develop hunches, intuitions
and, yes, cherished ideas. Of these, the survey offered no fewer than 11 to choose from
(as well as ‘other’ and ‘none’).
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read the rest at
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/is-the-many-worlds-hypothesis-just-a-fantasy/
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