On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 6:18:49 PM UTC, Brent wrote: > > > > On 7/26/2018 11:31 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > Le ven. 27 juil. 2018 à 00:10, <[email protected] <javascript:>> 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. >
*Isn't the projection another word the collapse? Are classical worlds "created" by the collapse of the wf? AG* > 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. > > > -- 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.
