On 7/26/2018 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Le ven. 27 juil. 2018 à 00:10, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 9:59:49 PM UTC, stathisp wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 2:08 am, <[email protected]> wrote: On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 11:30:11 AM UTC, [email protected] wrote: On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 11:24:42 AM UTC, Quentin Anciaux wrote: I still don't get it why some people prefer insulting other people and their ideas instead of discussing or just stay with their own thoughts and just say they disagree... What do you gain by saying they are insane, stupid or whatever? It just looks to me childish. So stop doing this, stop writing in 70pt size red fonts... It's a disfavor to your arguments. Quentin In fact, I DO think it's a mental illness. AG It's not just wrong, but a gross dysfunction of judgment. Joe the Plumber goes into a lab or his closet, shoots a single electron at a slit, and by so doing creates uncountable universes, all with copies of himself, replete with his memories. Sure. AG You may as well protest on the same basis that the universe can’t be so wastefully large. I don't see how that follows. Unfortunately, one cannot PROVE that the many worlds allegedly implied by the MWI interpretation don't exist, which is why I insist the True Believers are judgment impaired. Do you really believe that trivial actions by mere humans, accidents of evolution, can create entire universes? AG.No, because that's not what happens, at every interactions, universes split/differentiate... Humans or not.
I think that's a misleading way to look at it. First, the vector in Hilbert space representing the state of the universe just rotates around. It never "splits". What we refer to as "splitting" is the projection onto a plane in the Hilbert space that corresponds to a certain "classical" world. Second, this "classical" world plane is not sharply defined. Almost all interactions do not make any difference to it, i.e. they only make Planck sized changes to the action and correspondingly tiny tilts to the projective plane. The myriad atomic interactions in your body don't make any classical difference. Only the few that cause you to take action at the classical level.
Brent
Humans have nothing to do in the process.
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