Well contrary to his title... he doesn't ask a question but assert it is a fantasy... and he just uses an argument of disbelief... well ok, but that's not an argument... he also talks about splitting with universes created at every interaction, everywhere, without entertaining the differentiation possibility with pre-existing uncountable infinite fungible universes... In that view, nothing pops up into existence... everything is already there.
But anyway, I was not convinced by the article that MWI is more a fantasy than the one universe hypotheses.. he does not like MWI, that's sure, and that's the only thing we can get from his article. Quentin 2015-02-18 17:36 GMT+01:00 meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net>: > > > > -------- 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/ > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
