On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 8:45 PM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2019, at 08:04, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 3:54 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9/6/2019 10:21 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> Sean Carroll is on a nationwide speaking tour now evangelizing Many >> Worlds. >> >> What is the predictive power of Many Worlds? >> >> >> None, unless someone can figure out how to derive Born's rule from >> it...which I think is impossible. But it does go a way toward making the >> story of measurement more consistent. >> > > Amplify the above statement. > > Even Zurek, who starts from a many worlds perspective, thinks that > ultimately one can abandon the non-seen worlds as irrelevant. > > > But irrelevant does not mean false. So it is irrelevant in physics, but it > is not irrelevant in theology. It might plays a role concerning the > interpretation of death, like with quantum immortality. > If the only relevance you can find for many worlds is quantum immortality, then many worlds is indeed dead. Quantum immortality has been shown many times to be a complete nonsense. 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/CAFxXSLSvB5Y2nv%2BHkrMC5rtTD3UWJqR_AP6%2Bd%2BSfheu80WPBqg%40mail.gmail.com.
