On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> assuming A and B were different to begin with and assuming the MWI is >> correct, the universe splits into 4 strands with a observer in each one. > > > > Sometimes: sometimes only two strands. > If you and I because of pure randomness happen to set our magnets to the exact same angle (astronomically unlikely and perhaps infinitely unlikely) then there are 4 possible stands in the multiverse all with conscious observers: 1) You see your electron go up and you see that I see my electron go up. 2) You see your electron go down and you see that I see my electron go down. 3) You see your electron go up and you see that I see my electron go down. 4) You see your electron go down and you see that I see my electron go up. > >>>> >> >>>> So MWI does not give a local account of the EPR results on entanged >>>> states. >>> >>> >> >> >> I think that's right, some would disagree but they can only so by giving >> a somewhat tortuous meaning to the word "local", and when they do that they >> just increase the difficulty in making MWI realistic and deterministic. No >> quantum interpretation can get rid of quantum weirdness and make things >> realistic local and deterministic as common sense demands because common >> sense is just dead wrong. >> > > > > It seems that we agree, then. > We agree on many things. > > > I don't like many worlds because it is baroque and unnecessary. > But we don't agree on that because whether it's many worlds or something else whatever the truth turns out to be experiment tells us that it must necessarily be baroque and weird. Although perhaps our disagreement is only a matter of personal taste, I feel that many worlds is slightly less baroque and weird than the alternatives and you may feel otherwise. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
