On Sun, Jul 4, 2021, 8:07 AM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at 12:48:06 PM UTC+2 Bruce wrote: > >> But that works only if the copies are generated in the actual quantum >> coin tossing experiment -- they can't be pre-existing because then the idea >> doesn't work -- there is no causal connection between the experiments and >> the copies. The issue then is how the Schrodinger equation generates all >> these copies. > > > I am wondering, is it really necessary that the split into copies occurs > at measurement? Would it not be possible that all the copies of worlds > already exist before the measurement, evolving in the same way until the > moment of measurement, and at the moment of measurement their evolutions > start to differ? Causality may be just a regularity in the temporal > sequence of states of a world where a particular state of the world is > logically derived from a prior state of the world and from the regularity. > But at the moment of measurement this regularity is broken, which may just > mean that the state of the world after the measurement cannot be logically > derived from a prior state of the world and from a regularity; still there > may be a regularity on the level of the multiverse in the way the > particular worlds start to differ from each other at the moment of > measurement, and this regularity gives proportions of different worlds > after the measurement and thereby probabilities that we exist in a > particular world. > Wei Dai, the founder of this list, proposed something quite similar, I think: http://www.weidai.com/qm-interpretation.txt Jason > > -- > 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/660d56c9-99c9-4f20-8245-31d1997399aan%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/660d56c9-99c9-4f20-8245-31d1997399aan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CA%2BBCJUjHHFuOVZhVkeoENtj%2BmpJ23ZAKrX9Rhss40bGvK1429g%40mail.gmail.com.
