On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 10:59:20 AM UTC-6 johnk...@gmail.com wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 12:42 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> I don't need to make an argument for that because the one and only 
>>> assumption that Many Worlds makes, perhaps "axiom" would be a better word, 
>>> is that Schrödinger's Equation means what it says. 
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>> *> But S's equation just gives the time dependent probabilities BEFORE a 
>> measurement is taken. You've added an additional postulate without any 
>> justification.  AG*
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> Schrödinger's Equation is time independent, 
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Then why, for example, does the solution for a free particle spread out as 
time progresses? AG 

it works just as well forwards or backwards, so "before" or "after" are 
> irrelevant terms. And Schrödinger makes no use of "measurement" and says 
> nothing about it, although it's easy enough to logically extrapolate from 
> Schrödinger's axiom and conclude that "measurement" simply means self 
> location. If you insist measurement does something more than that you're 
> going to have to add another axiom explaining exactly what that "something" 
> is and exactly what it does.
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