On 11/17/2017 1:17 PM, [email protected] wrote:
*I think "must" is unwarranted, certainly in the case of the MWI.
Rather, it ASSUMES all possible measurements must be realized in some
world. I see no reason for this assumption other than an insistence to
fully reify the wf in order to avoid "collapse". Same situation in
String Theory; no "must"; simply other possible universes in the
landscape. Do you really think that when you pull a slot machine and
get some outcome, the 10 million other possible outcomes occur in 10
million other universe? Seems ridiculous to me.*
The problem is a conflict:
(1) If the wave-function collapses when does it do it and what is the
process. Does a human being have to look at the record? Is simply
having a recorde enough? But then what constitutes a record? Does it
have be made of more than 100 atoms, more than 10, more than 1? How is
the record created, if not by evolution of the Schrodinger equation?
(2)If it's created by a splitting of the world, then you still have the
same questions with "splitting" in places of "collapse" except that the
SE does provide the evolution. But then in the Schrodinger cat
experiment the world is splitting */continuously/*.
Brent
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