From: *Jason Resch* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
If you want to know why so many of us are under the spell of MWI and
have demented our own view of reality into a stark violation of what
ours senses so plainly tell us (and you), it is because we have found
the conceptual problems that arise from rejecting MWI an even harder
pill to swallow.
The nature of these problems is in my opinion best explained by this
page: https://www.readthesequences.com/IfManyWorldsHadComeFirst
<https://www.readthesequences.com/IfManyWorldsHadComeFirst>
Perhaps if you read it, you will have a better understanding of the
source of our mental illness.
The author of this should have taken a bit more care to get his facts of
history right! Everett was not crushed by the rejection of his theory.
He did not want a career in academic physics. Wheeler tired hard to
persuade him otherwise, and even offered to find him positions later in
his career. With Wheeler on his team, a key academic position would have
been a cinch -- if he had wanted it.
Besides, Everett did not work out the important details of decoherence.
That did not happen until Zeh in 1970, and it was Wigner who saw the
importance of this work and helped Zeh get his paper published. It is
all very well to claim Everett as the great mistreated hero who actually
solved all of physics, but this is a myth.
You should read the new book "What is Real?" by Adam Becker to get a
more balanced view of the actual history of quantum physics.
In addition, many-worlds or the relative state theory, does not give a
local account of EPR entanglement!
Bruce
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