On Thursday, February 19, 2015, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > 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’). > ... > > read the rest at > > http://aeon.co/magazine/science/is-the-many-worlds- > hypothesis-just-a-fantasy/ > Not much of an argument beyond "this stuff is incredible". -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
