On Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 3:39:00 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:08 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > *>>> 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? * >>>> >>> >>> >> >>> I could be wrong but that would be my best guess. >>> >> >> > >> Is the slot machine duplicated in those 10 million new universes? >> > > > If the Schrodinger > > Wave Equation really means what it says then the answer can only be yes. >
Since your conclusions seem immensely more bizarre than collapse of the wf, your interpretation of what the SE means must be in error. AG > The > > Copenhagen > > people felt that was > just > too strange so they stuck stuff into their theory that the mathematics > alone didn't say, as a result they got rid of one form of weirdness, the > multiverse, but inadvertently created two new forms of weirdness: the > future can effect the past and things only exist when you look at them. > There is just no way to stamp out the weird from the quantum world and be > consistent with experiment. > > > > >> And the gambler cranking it? And the casino? And the city where the >> casino is resident? And Andromeda, and beyond, up to and including the BB? >> > > Yes, and that raises another question, how can the MWI produce finite > probabilities if infinite numbers are involved? To make matters even worse > the infinite numbers involved are not even countable. The answer is not all > those universes change the probability. > > If I paint a number of disks on a wall of various diameters then put a > blindfold on and throw darts at the wall there are a uncountably > > infinite number of points that dart could hit, but my eye is not perfect > so there are only a finite number spots on that wall that I can consciously > distinguish > , > and there are more of those spots in the large disks than the small ones > so there are more distinguishable versions of me seeing the dart hit the > larger disk than the smaller. > > To get back to the slot machine, > > if > the > Schrodinger > Wave is correct > there are more than 10 million versions of me looking at that slot > machine, infinitely more in fact, but the version of me where a pebble on a > planet in the Andromeda Galaxy is a quarter inch to the left is not > consciously discernible by me from a universe where the pebble is a quarter > inch to the right, and so when I consciously calculate probabilities the > two > universes > can be lumped together. > > > 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.
