On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 12:59:02 PM UTC-7 Brent wrote:
> > > On 1/20/2021 3:58 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:01 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> No, there are *NOT* exactly 10 winners! There are an astronomical >>> number to an astronomical power number horses that won that race with only >>> a submicroscopic difference between them, and there are also an >>> astronomical number to an astronomical power number of Alan Graysons that >>> won his bet on that race. >>> >> >> *> So instead of all possible outcomes being measured in some other >> world,* >> > > Except for its simplicity the most important advantage of many worlds is > that it doesn't have to explain what "measured" means, or what a "observer" > means, or what a "choice" means because in many worlds ANY physical change > of any sort causes the Universe to split. > > > That sounds like a bug not a feature. Does every C14 decay in your body > instantiate a different world? Every photon that's absorbed by that > chlorophyll molecule instead of that other molecule? As Bruno says, "World" > and "Universe" become hard to define. If you say "This universe." does it > mean anything, even for a moment? But it you can't give meaning to "This" > how can you make sense of an experiment in which "This" evolves into > "That"? You need some way to talk about the quasi-classical world, because > as Bohr noted, that's where we live and that's where science predicts > things. > > Brent > Now you know why I call the MWI "Trump Physics". Its advocates will never admit it's woefully wrong, like our hopefully departed "leader" who never admits a mistake. Another example of this utter foolishness; note the numerous worlds created by ants which move along in repeated zig-zags. AG -- 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/b254fdf8-3613-4f36-85b8-541accfb893bn%40googlegroups.com.
