Bruno, do you believe there is a different world for every possible basis in which a spin (or other observable) might be measured? That seems pretty strange.
On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 10:27:14 PM UTC+10, Bruno Marchal wrote: > On 20 Jun 2017, at 19:44, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > > > > On 6/19/2017 11:47 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >>> Why would you say that if I fly from Bermuda to London it > >>> demonstrates that flights from Bermuda to Algiers and Algiers to > >>> London exist? > >> > >> Why should I not when I can find interference pattern involving > >> Algiers and some other city? It is the interference which forces us > >> to take "the two slit" into account, even with only one photon used > >> in the process? > > > > It's fine to use some other basis. We use the "two slit" basis > > because that makes the calculations easy. > > Yes, but it can be misleading for those who have a naive reading of > the MW. The relevant (for the experience and their relative weigh) > part of the multiverse is base independent (eventually it is even > "theory" independent). > > > > > > But that's not a reason to say each path is in a different world; > > PARTICULARY since they interfere with one another. > > That is why I usually avoid the term "world". "Many-dreams" is less > wrong, and it makes physics looking already closer to the digital > mechanist (non computable) physics. > > Bruno > > > > > > > > Brent > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- 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.
