On 30/11/2017 10:59 pm, [email protected] wrote:
On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 11:42:51 AM UTC, Bruce wrote:On 30/11/2017 10:32 pm, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 4:08:20 AM UTC-7, Bruce wrote: On 30/11/2017 9:53 pm, [email protected] wrote: On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 10:40:36 PM UTC, Bruce wrote: On 30/11/2017 5:31 am, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > I see no reason all the Everett worlds have the same physics, > Everettian worlds follow from assuming that the Schrödinger equation applies everywhere without exception, so that all physical evolution is unitary. A change in the underlying physics -- such as a change in the value of fundamental constants, Planck's constant or Newton's constant for example -- would not be unitary, so cannot occur in MWI. Why can't it be unitary?? Show me why if Newton's constant had any value other than 6.754* 10^-11 m3 kg^−1 s^−2 the sum of all quantum probabilities would no longer add up to exactly 1. If you can really do that then you've just derived Newton's constant directly from first principles and you should but a ticket to Stockholm right now because you're absolutely certain to win the next nobel Prize.Although unitarity does mean that probabilities always sum to unity, that is a consequence of unitary evolution, not a definition of it. A unitary transformation is one that can be reversed: so the unitary operator U can be written as exp(-iH), for example, and the complex conjugate (or the adjoint for hermitian operators) is the inverse transformation.* **Considering the evolution of the wf, if there exists a DE that describes the collapse process, would it necessarily be nonlinear? Is nonlinear a problem; that is, what is the downside to nonlinear? How would it effect the issue of hidden variables? TIA, AG * Collapse would be non-linear and non-unitary -- intrinsically non-reversible. This is not necessarily a problem since there are plenty of non-linearities in physics. It has nothing to do with hidden variables. * * *Why would it be non linear? Brent claimed (on page 1)*Page 1 of what?* **On Google it's organized as pages, now up to page 15. Go to top of thread and read second message by Brent. AG* * **that if the QM could be made deterministic, say by a DE that described collapse, it would imply awful consequences, such as the future determining the past.*No, it wouldn't imply that.*Would making QM into a deterministic theory imply an inconsistency in the postulates of QM? TIA, AG*QM in MWI is deterministic. Bohm's theory is deterministic, though expressly non-local. Determinism is not really an issue. One world theories are intrinsically random, not deterministic.*How can MWI be deterministic if it can't tell us what outcome we will observe in this world, or any other? AG*
Because MWI says that all outcomes are realized, each in a separate world. Apparent randomness comes about because we don't know which world we will end up in (though we actually end up in all the worlds, so we, or our duplicates, observe all possible outcomes).
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