On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:43 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:51 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > *Why don't you just accept that the wf is simply irrelevant after the >> measurement occurs* >> > > Because you can't explain exactly what is and what is not a "measurement". > And because tacking on complicated mathematical wheels within wheels to > make the wave function suddenly vanish would not improve the theories > ability to make observable predictions by one bit and would do absolutely > nothing except muzzle the Schrödinger Equation which is virtually shouting > at us about the nature of reality. The Many Worlds theory didn't tack on > all those many worlds, if you take a bare bones approach to quantum > mechanics and add nothing not needed to explain observation those worlds > come naturally, they can't be avoided. > So why do all Everettians have to add so many additional assumptions in order to pretend to get out the Born rule? 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/CAFxXSLQ%3DxXCvOrY_cBiXeo3otcuHVNd6H83ZDSnkDsL5-C7gLA%40mail.gmail.com.
