On 11/25/2017 7:38 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:08 PM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com
<mailto:agrayson2...@gmail.com>>wrote:
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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? *
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I could be wrong but that would be my best guess.
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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. 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.
Many things we consider random are classically deterministic and slot
machines are among them.
Brent
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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
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