On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 5:55:16 AM UTC, scerir wrote: > > > > I think Schroedinger and his cat bear some responsibility. In trying to > debunk Born's probabilistic interpretation he appealed to the absurdity of > observation changing the physical state...even though no one had actually > proposed that. > > Brent > > > “The idea that the alternate measurement outcomes be not alternatives but > *all > *really happening simultaneously seems lunatic to the quantum theorist, > just *impossible. *He thinks that if the laws of nature took *this *form > for, let me say, a quarter of an hour, we should find our surroundings > rapidly turning into a quagmire, a sort of a featureless jelly or plasma, > all contours becoming blurred, we ourselves probably becoming jelly fish. > It is strange that he should believe this. For I understand he grants that > unobserved nature does behave this way – namely according to the wave > equation. . . . according to the quantum theorist, nature is prevented from > rapid jellification only by our perceiving or observing it.” > > -Erwin Schroedinger, *The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Dublin > Seminars (1949-1955) and Other Unpublished Assays *(Ox Bow Press, > Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1995). >
Who is Schrodinger referring to? This was written before 1957, when Everett published his MWI.? Were other theorists advancing the idea that all alternatives are physically manifested in reality? 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.
