On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 8:37 PM smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04-10-2019 09:10, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 5:03 PM smitra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The descendant worlds get the same energy if they have well defined > >> energy in which case computing the weighted average to get to the > >> expectation value is unnecessary. In general the expectation value > >> will > >> need to be computed by this weighted average. To see that this is > >> not > >> crazy, suppose that QM is not the ultimate answer that 't Hooft is > >> correct. But it then turns out that 't Hooft's deterministic models > >> lead > >> to a multiverse via the back door due to Poincare recurrence. And > >> because with finite information in our brains, we cannot locate > >> ourselves in a particular time period. Then when we do an > >> experiment, a > >> splitting can occur in the sense that we now get more precisely > >> located > >> across in the different sectors separated by astronomical large > >> amounts > >> of time. So, no problem here with the sum of the energy of > >> (effective) > >> branches increasing. > > > > Where is all this in the Schrodinger equation? > > We should start with listing all possibilities: > > 1) Schrodinger equation is exactly correct, in which case we have to > accept the MWI. >
False. > 2) Schrodinger equation is only an approximation. > Possible, but irrelevant here. This does not go towards answering the question that was asked about energy. Bruce Under option 2) we can have single world theories where a real collapse > happens that violates the Schrodinger equation. But it's also possible > that the violation of the Schrodinger equation leading to a collapse > doesn't actually get rid of the Many Worlds part of the MWI. The way the > collapse happens will be different for the copies of an observer that > will exist in a large enough universe (in a spatial or temporal sense). > > Saibal > -- 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/CAFxXSLTUzf%3DPsuDh6NQzniD5as_SxDT9OHkATYEZS2EFdDqkNg%40mail.gmail.com.
