On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:50 PM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 7 Aug 2019, at 21:04, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 8/7/2019 6:40 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> It is like the difference between the human existence and the human non > existence, for an alien situated in a very far away galaxy. The fact that > this alien cannot detect us does not make the human disappearing. > >> > >> It is like the other side of the moon before we built rocket. > >> > >> It is like taking our theory at fave value, instead of eliminating some > terms in the equation by sheer coquetry. > > > > Except in the case of quantum mechanics the theory you are saying > predicts other worlds, also predicts they are inaccessible. > > That is right, but the theory predicts that they are indirectly playing an > important role without which QM explains nothing. > No, the theory does not predict that these parallel worlds are playing an important role. The theory (QM) explicitly predicts that such other worlds are orthogonal to observation; they do not interact; and they are in principle inaccessible. They can, therefore, play no "important role without which QM explains nothing". I think you are very confused about how QM works, Bruno. 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTbCdVpGCNJiNpDCpH1v1oUc9jVNbe%3Dd81pw8QqiMTEDw%40mail.gmail.com.
