On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 8:25:59 AM UTC, scerir wrote: > > Il 5 dicembre 2017 alle 10.25 scerir <[email protected] <javascript:>> ha > scritto: > > Sometimes I read and re-read something Schroedinger seemed to have in > mind. > > “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 Mechanic* > ...
As your original quotation indicates, this was written pre-Everett who published his thesis in 1957. Who first got the idea that every outcome that's possible, must occur. This is the person who led us astray. Unlikely that such a dumb idea would take hold. 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.
