Unless there is some physical ionteraction tween local closely related universes, its all bupkas, or cyhers, Its a breath taking concept in the hug everett sense of things, but we might as well be discussing harry potter or batman worlds. I love the imaginaton, but it seems useless to our species except an an abstraction of mathematical physics.Continue having intellectual fun.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sun, Apr 17, 2016 10:26 pm Subject: Re: Non-locality and MWI On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> There is only one Alice and one Bob in every world that I am talking about too, but there are 4 different worlds, and in each world they observe 4 unique particles; and 4 different yous are observing the 4 different Alice and Bobs. The only way to know which of the yous is you is to observe Alice and Bob observe their particles. > They can talk about their results in their own worlds. So what? So is there a way of knowing which of the 4 yous is you other than by observing what Alice and Bob are observing? I f there is I can't imagine what it could be. > >> You appear to have a clear grasp of the situation -- either QM is intrinsically non-local, or we have magic...... >> Or non-realism. > If by non-realism you mean some version of Einstein's "elements of reality", Einstein believed in realism even more than he believed in determinism or locality, that's why he said the moon existed even when nobody was looking at it. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.