On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 2:21:24 AM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:45 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > >> > > The fundamental unproven assumption, and IMO the core fallacy of the MWI, > is the belief that what CAN occur, necessarily MUST will occur. > > > >> > The > > fundamental > > assumption of the MWI is that the > > Schrodinger > Wave > > Equation > means what it says and says what it means. The > > fundamental > > assumption > of Copenhagen is that > Schrodinger > forgot to put a "except" and a "however" into his equation. > > > > > Solutions of the SWE give the probabilities of getting possible > measurement outcomes > > > It's not the SWE itself that gives the probabilities, >
I know. That's why I wrote "solutions" of the SWE. AG > you've got to > square of the absolute value of the wave > > function > > to find the probability > of > finding > a particle at > that > point > . > You mean Born's rule? Never heard of it. Wasn't covered in my graduate courses in QM. AG > I'm not splitting hairs this is important because > the SWE contains > > imaginary numbers (square root of -1) so 2 very different wave functions > can yield the exact same probability at a point when you square it. So even > if you know the probability you can't know the unique wave function that > produced it because there is no such unique function. > Maybe at discrete points, and even if not, why is this important? AG > > > > prior to the measurement. If you want to give the equation a life after > measurement > [...] > > > If you want to say the equation has no life after measurement then you're > going to have to explain exactly what a measurement is and what term in the > SWE it interacts with causing it to self destruct. > The measurement process, whatever its details are, is the same in MWI as in Copenhagen regardless of your denials. I can speculate what happens to the SWE after measurement, but more important I don't see why MWI implies MW, and you have NOT made that case. AG -- 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.
