On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> wrote: > John is inconsistent... he asserts that theory for duplication machines, > and so say that he can never say anything about his future expectations > because he is no more... but somehow he can when he talks about MWI... go > figure. >
If you want to make the duplication machine stuff analogous to the MWI then at some point you've got to recombine the Moscow Man and the Washington Man back into a single entity that has memories of both cities. When a single electron is at the 2 slits the universe splits because the the electron went through slot A in one and slot B in another. But after that when the electron hits the photographic film (or a brick wall) there is no longer any difference between the 2 universes so they recombine but the information about the slots they went through is retained and this produces the interference pattern. This is also why we don't see weird quantum effects in our everyday lives, in the 2 slit case the difference between the 2 universes is very very small so it's easy to make them identical again, but if you make a macroscopic change the difference is so huge it would be virtually impossible to make them identical again so the universes could recombine. Richard Feynman said that the 2 slit experiment incorporates all the weirdness of quantum mechanics, and the MWI explains that weirdness, but if you refuse to let the Washington Man and the Moscow Man recombine then you could only analogize a simpler and much much duller version of that experiment; you fire electrons at two slits, and that's it. The electrons never hit photographic film or a brick wall or anything else, the electrons just continue forever into infinite space, and that doesn't even come close to incorporating the full richness of Quantum Mechanics. So if you want to use the duplicating machine stuff as a analogy for the MWI you've GOT to allow the Washington Man and the Moscow Man to recombine. John K Clark -- 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.
