I think it's taking the mathematics too seriously (but then I'm not a Platonist). When QM
is integrated with GR something different may emerge.
Brent
On 2/19/2015 2:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Brent,
What's your position on the MWI?
Best,
Telmo.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:36 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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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’).
...
read the rest at
http://aeon.co/magazine/science/is-the-many-worlds-hypothesis-just-a-fantasy/
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