On Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 7:25:14 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:38 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > >> I notice you don't gave a damn about having a non falsifiable theory. >> > > David Deutsch proposed a test of Many Worlds about 30 years ago in his > book "The Ghost In The Atom", but > it > would be very difficult to perform. The reason it's so difficult to test > is not > the M > any > World's > > theory fault, the reason is that the conventional view says that conscious > > observers obey different laws of physics >
Never heard this before. AG many worlds says they do not, so > > to test who's right we need a mind that uses quantum properties. > > Quantum Computers have advanced enormously over the last 30 years > so > I wouldn't be surprised if it or something very much like it > is > actually performed in the decade or two. > > > An intelligent quantum computer shoots > > photons at a metal plate > > one at a time > > that has 2 small slits in > it, > and then the photons hit a photographic plate. > > Nobody looks at the photographic plate till the very end of the > experiment. > > The quantum mind has detectors near each slit so it knows which slit > > the various electrons went through. > > After each photon passes the slits but before they hit the photographic > plate the quantum mind signs a document > > saying that it has observed each and every > photon > and knows > which > slit each > > photon > > went through. It is very important that the document does not say > > which slit > > any > photon > went through, it only says that they went through > > one slit > > and one slit only and the mind has knowledge of which one. > > There is a signed document to this effect for every photon it shot. > > Now the mind uses > > quantum erasure to completely destroy > its > memory of > which slit any of the photons went through; t > he only > > part remaining is the document > which states that each photon went through one and only one slit and the > mind (at the time) knew which one. > Now develop the photographic plate and look at it. > I > f you see interference bands then the many world interpretation is > > correct. If you do not see interference bands then there are no worlds but > > this one and the conventional > quantum > interpretation is correct. > > This works because in the Copenhagen interpretation when the results of > a measurement enters the consciousness of an observer the wave function > collapses, in effect all the universes except one disappear without a > trace so you get no interference. In the many worlds model all the other > worlds > will converge back into one universe because information on which slit > the various photons went through was the only thing that made one universe > different from another, so when that was erased they became identical again > and merged, but their influence will still be felt, you'll see indications > that the photon went through slot A only and indications it went through > slot B only, and that's what causes interference. > > 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.
