On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 5:12:24 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 1:12 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > >> *> since Maxwell's equations have advanced wave solutions, why do you >> prefer the MWI compared to the Transactional Interpretation?* > > > I think Jason answered that question very well. But who knows > , > the Transactional Interpretation could turn out to be right, it certainly > makes far more sense than Copenhagen which isn’t even wrong. Copenhagen > isn’t weird its self contradictory, it says quantum mechanics is the theory > of the world and everything must follow it, but when a measurement is made > (which is so important to Copenhagen) it insists that the measuring device > and the observer that looks at the measuring device be classical. >
*Well, any evidence that the device and observer are *not* classical? But if you want to treat them quantum mechanically, apply decoherence theory. Did it ever occur to you that the CI is a work in progress? AG* > > >> *> I see both as absurd.* > > > I do too. The only question in my mind is are either of them absurd enough > to be true. You still don't comprehend how absurd the results of Bell type > experiments are. > *And you conclude that based on what? An overactive imagination which lacks discrimination? AG* > In 1935 Einstein proposed a thought exparament that he thought proved > quantum mechanics had a flaw, he showed that if quantum mechanics was > correct you’d get absurd results. But 40 years later technology had > improved enough to turn the thought exparament into a real exparament and > the absurd result showed up exactly as quantum mechanics said it would. > > > > >> * It asserts multiple, even infinite copies of an observer* > > > The only thing the MWI asserts is that the quantum wave function means > what it says, from that it deduces that there must be multiple copies of > everything not just observers because there is nothing special about > observers. > > *I see. I love mathematics, but I am not intoxicated with it. Do the plane waves predicted by Maxwell's equations exist? AG* > > 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.
