> On 21 Jun 2019, at 09:04, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 4:26 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > To disconfirm MWI you'd have to observe statistics far from the expected > value, > > To make my point more strongly, that is the wrong way round. Observation of > statistics far from the expected value is what would be required to confirm > MWI.
I don’t see this at all. > The fact that we don't observe such results is the strongest possible case > against MWI! ? The probability to see a deviation is the same in both Everett, and Copenhagen. The deviation expected is the same, so if there is a deviation, it can hardly be used to claim one theory is more correct than the other. Bruno > > which is why Tegmark proposed his machine gun suicide experiment. > > Which confirms nothing except that Tegmark believes in MWI. Quantum suicide > cannot convince anyone other than one's self that MWI is true. Everyday > experience does not confirm this, since we do not meet people several hundred > years old -- every one dies at their appointed time. The quantum suicide > experiment has been run billions of times, always with null results. > > Bruce > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSJeT-SYchLgRM-rj%3DrkhWxjVkYEw3krBNUcukpsZk%3DFA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLSJeT-SYchLgRM-rj%3DrkhWxjVkYEw3krBNUcukpsZk%3DFA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0641C04F-BE18-45D5-9867-7180A8E3F2CD%40ulb.ac.be.
