On Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at 4:51:55 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 9:29 AM John Clark <johnk...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 5:13 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkel...@gmail.com 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>> *> I think your* [Brent Meeker] *point about other conservation laws is 
>>> interesting -- especially charge. How would you divide the charge of a 
>>> state among the superposed basis states according to the Born rule and get 
>>> charge conservation in every branch?*
>>
>>
>> Our branch of the multiverse is electrically neutral and it seems 
>> likely all of them are, so preserving conservation of charge doesn't seem 
>> like much of a problem.
>>
>
>
> Consider firing an electron at a screen. There are a very large number of 
> sub-branches created -- one for every position that the electron can land. 
> There was only one negative charge originally -- now there are a very large 
> number. Where did the extra charges come from?
>
> Bruce
>

The electric charge in one branch is the same electric charge in all other 
branches.

LC 

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