On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 1:18:16 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 7/21/2019 1:09 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > I didn't say there was. I said *youse-self* sees Moscow and Washington. >> "Youse-self" is second person *plural*. >> >> Brent >> > > Ok but no need of youse, the question is clear without it, if you accept > frequency interpretation of probability as you should also for MWI, it's > clear and meaningful. > > > But does it have a clear answer? > > The MWI has it's own problems with probability. It's straightforward if > there are just two possibility and so the world splits into two (and we > implicitly assume they are equi-probable). But what if there are two > possibilities and one is twice as likely as the other? Does the world > split into three, two of which are the same? If two worlds are the same, > can they really be two. Aren't they just one? And what if there are two > possibilities, but one of them is very unlikely, say one-in-a-thousand > chance. Does the world then split into 1001 worlds? And what if the > probability of one event is 1/pi...so then we need infinitely many worlds. > But if there are infinitely many worlds then every event happens infinitely > many times and there is no natural measure of probability. > > Brent >
Sean Carroll is the multiple-worlds dude. He would have an answer. http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/30/why-the-many-worlds-formulation-of-quantum-mechanics-is-probably-correct/ "The potential for *multiple worlds* is always there in the quantum state, whether you like it or not. The next question would be, do multiple-world superpositions of the form written [above] ever actually come into being? And the answer again is: *yes, automatically*, without any additional assumptions." @philipthrift -- 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/46929bcc-7706-460d-b0d3-43d58b868865%40googlegroups.com.
