On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 5:08 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> 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 > And that is where Sean slips inevitably into woo-woo. 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/CAFxXSLRWEhcgisyY22wfpefvxs4P%2BQQzUyks81EgVYTK%2BQy18w%40mail.gmail.com.
