On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at 5:35:44 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:42 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There are things called laboratories, where physicists conduct >> experiments, some of which are quantum experiments with probabilistic >> outcomes. >> > > If Many Worlds is correct then there are an astronomically large number, > and possibly an infinitely large number, of worlds where physicists > conduct experiments, some of which are quantum experiments with > probabilistic outcomes. > > >> * The world in which such things exist, I call THIS world. * >> > > So there are an astronomically large number and possibly an infinitely > large number of "THIS" worlds. > > *> Worlds postulated to exist based on the claim that any possible >> measurement, must be a realized measurement in another world, I call OTHER >> worlds.* >> > > Alan Grayson decides that tomorrow Alan Grayson will conduct an > experiment to determine if an electron goes left or right. If Many Worlds > is correct then the day after tomorrow one Alan Grayson will remember > having seen the electron go left and one Alan Grayson will remember > having seen the electron go right. Which Alan Grayson lives in "THIS" > world. > > *> The core of my argument is that since the trial outcomes in quantum >> experiments are independent of one another, there's no reason to claim that >> each of the OTHER worlds accumulates ensembles, as an ensemble is created >> in THIS world.* >> > > That is just untrue. When one Alan Grayson has observed 1000 photons there > is another Alan Grayson that agrees with 999 of the observations and > disagrees only about #1000. All the 2^1000 Alan Graysons have made1000 > observations, most Alan Graysons saw the electron go left about 500 times > and go right about 500 times, but a few were quite different, one Alan > Grayson out of 2^1000 saw the electron go left 1000 times in a row and > one Alan Grayson out of 2^1000 saw the electron go right 1000 times in a > row. > If you don't know what THIS world is, I can't help. AG > > See my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > > John K Clark > -- 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/677fa7d5-1750-4347-8806-d500ce173430n%40googlegroups.com.
