The only thing on this cold day that sets me to mind, is the silly notion of trade with other Earth's other H. Sapiens, or smart Neanderthal's in some fantasy ship. War, is possible, but unlikely, because, money, ya, know? Each Earth might exist in a lifeless expanse of 46 billion light years. Meanwhile, trade and tourism go on.
-----Original Message----- From: Brent Meeker <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 4:38 pm Subject: Re: Consistency of Postulates of QM 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 -- 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. -- 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.
