On Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 1:38:37 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
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> On 10/6/2019 1:53 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> That is, as they say, it. Notice you don’t see anything about worlds in
> there. The worlds are there whether you like it or not, sitting in Hilbert
> space, waiting to see whether *they become actualized in the course of
> the evolution.*
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> What does that mean? Which ones are not actuallized? What the theory
> predicts is not worlds; it predicts there are approximately orthogonal
> subspaces on which the universal wave function vector has projections.
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> Brent
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> Notice, also, that these postulates are eminently testable — indeed, even
> falsifiable! And once you make them (and you accept an appropriate “past
> hypothesis,” just as in statistical mechanics, and are considering a
> sufficiently richly-interacting system), the worlds happen automatically
> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.preposterousuniverse.com%2Fblog%2F2014%2F06%2F30%2Fwhy-the-many-worlds-formulation-of-quantum-mechanics-is-probably-correct%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNErhvosNFZbgpY4YUsRL8t00ldXTw>
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Sean Carroll, with his book, and book tour, is the celebrated guru on many
worlds. What he says must be taken as many worlds gospel.
As he says:
the worlds happen automatically
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.preposterousuniverse.com%2Fblog%2F2014%2F06%2F30%2Fwhy-the-many-worlds-formulation-of-quantum-mechanics-is-probably-correct%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNErhvosNFZbgpY4YUsRL8t00ldXTw>
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@philipthrift
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