One of the main competitors to Everett's Many Worlds idea is Continuous Spontaneous Localization, the idea that an additional term needs to be added to Schrödinger's wave equation that randomly and very rarely collapses the wave function so there is only one objective reality. One great advantage of this idea is that it can be tested empirically, the experiment needed is conceptually simple but requires great skill to actually perform, but it has been done in the last few months and the results are negative, there is no sign of spontaneous quantum wave function collapse. For the idea to work now its advocates would have to add yet more mathematical bells and whistles to their new equation which is already very complicated and downright baroque, and that's always a bad sign. Many Worlds is looking better than ever.
Search for Spontaneous Radiation from Wave Function Collapse in the Majorana Demonstrator <https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.080401> 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/CAJPayv3eWE5tbyD_FscoTWHpX68%2BnoW4Vme909dg_GhYN1wHNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
