On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:11 PM smitra <smi...@zonnet.nl> wrote:

> On 11-05-2022 06:06, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:56 PM smitra <smi...@zonnet.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> On 09-05-2022 00:34, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> >>
> >>> That still treats the SE as indubitally true. No theory in physics is
> >>> 'indubitably true'.
> >>>
> >>> The Everett program is to say that the SE is all that there is -- it
> >>> explains everything. That is clearly false (no Born rule in the SE),
> >>> so it might be wise to doubt the universal application of the SE.
> >>
> >> There is no good reason to doubt the SE without any experimental hints
> >> that it breaks down, or any good theoretical reasons why it is
> >> likely to break down in some regime.
> >
> > Such faith would be touching if it weren't so naive. There are good
> > theoretical and experimental reasons to believe that it cannot be the
> > whole story.
> >
> As John Clark has also mentioned, the opposite is true. There are no
> good arguments for collapse theories. There are no experimental hints
> for real collapse


That depends on how you read the data. We only see one outcome for each
experiment, after all!

> and if we argue based on theory, then we see that it
> leads to many problems.


The SE also has many problems., as I have taken pains to point out.

Bruce

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