On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jason Resch <[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 > > 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. > > I don't think either of us can claim to know his motives. But the facts are he left academia after his disastrous meeting with Bohr. > 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! > The article I linked isn't meant to be an accurate (nor even a mirrored) description of the history of QM, but rather is describing an alternate fictional (or perhaps "relatively fictional") history where decoherence was discovered before collapse was proposed. The point being that the idea of "collapse" would almost certainly be rejected out of hand for it's many problems, which the article does a good job at enumerating. Jason -- 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.
