Le jeu. 10 oct. 2019 à 11:30, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> a
écrit :

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> On Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 2:40:53 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
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>> Le jeu. 10 oct. 2019 à 09:34, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> a
>> écrit :
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>>> On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 3:59:50 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:55 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
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>>>> *> Other interpretations (but not MWI, as far as I can see) are used in
>>>>> writing programs for computational QM.*
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>>>>
>>>> Like what?
>>>>
>>>> John K Clark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Multiple Histories.
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>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_histories  ?
>>
>> So there are multiple "worlds", if multiple past histories are real....
>> so as you dislike MWI, what's different here for you to accept multiple
>> past ? (because if each event has multiple *real* past then likewise it has
>> multiple *real* future).
>>
>> Quentin
>>
>> --
>> All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy
>> Batty/Rutger Hauer)
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> That's one way to look at it.
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> In Fay Dowker's debate with a Many Worlder:
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> via https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.dowker
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> In this public debate <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeuI_Oja-P4> I
> argue that the path integral (or sum over histories) approach to quantum
> mechanics provides a One World interpretation
>

I didn't have time to look at it for now (I will), but could you resume her
position and explain how considering an event has *multiple* *real* past
histories provides a *one* world interpretation ?

Thanks;


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> Bottom line: multiple histories are cheaper than many worlds.
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