On Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 1:02:39 AM UTC-6, Bruce wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:51 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 3:54:46 PM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:22 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> *> When physics began to give non-intuitive results, in QM >>>> and Relativity, people when overboard. Now any patently absurd result >>>> finds >>>> its justification among true believers.* >>>> >>> >>> And in this context "patently absurd" means odd, not logically >>> contradictory not paradoxical not contrary to experimental results, just >>> odd. But as far as we know there is no law that says nature can't behave in >>> ways that humans find odd. >>> >> >> Many "odd" results are now mainstream, but MWI is bridge too far, way too >> far IMO. Why don't you just accept that the wf is simply irrelevant after >> the measurement occurs like in the horserace example?. Here, there's no >> collapse, no many worlds, no need to explain where the energy comes from >> which defines these worlds, and so forth? AG >> > > Except that horses and horse races do not interfere (except in Australia, > where several jockeys and trainers have recently been suspended for > unauthorised interference -- but that is a different matter!) > > Bruce >
I know. I was just being illustrative. But note that Carroll says much the same thing when he says worlds are created when you make a left or right turn, or flip a coin (or some equivalent analogy). AG -- 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/5f0c1b72-492b-47cc-aa3f-7e7d1b5c4cff%40googlegroups.com.
