On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 5:05 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Branch counting won't work if you assume there are an infinite number of >> worlds but one and only one Mr.You, but if there is also an infinite number >> of Brent Meekers who physically differ from each other in ways that are so >> sub microscopically tiny they make no subjective difference it does work. > > *> Right, provided you specify that the entanglement with result X vs Y be > random, independently distributed over the infinite number. * > If Schrodinger's equation is correct, and Many Worlds insists it is, then there is nothing random about it, every entanglement between X and Y that the laws of physics say could happen does happen. * > But to me that seems less intuitive than just the Born Rule. * > We don't need a mathematical proof or even intuition to know that the Born Rule is correct, we know it from experiment. > *> I know Everettians will say the infinite branches of Brent Meeker are > just different projections of the World Vector and although we can ignore > all the projections except the one we observed, by keeping all the > unobserved ones we've avoided saying the wave function collapsed. We can't > say exactly where and when, but we're sure there was a continuous process > of splitting.* > We never observed something being in 2 contradictory states at the same time so we know there must be a continuous process of splitting. However we do sometimes observe very very strange things when a world splits into contradictory states for a tiny fraction of a second and then recombines back into one world, for example when we observed the very odd goings-on in the double slit experiment. This bizarre effect is pretty easy to see with small things like photons and electrons but the larger the object is the more difficult it is to observe it doing these peculiar things. According to Many Worlds this is because if the only difference between 2 worlds is that one electron is displaced 1 inch further to the left than it is in the other universe then it's not too difficult to arrange things so that the 2 worlds become identical again and thus merge, but to do the same thing with something as large as a baseball would be an astronomical number to an astronomical power more difficult accomplish, so we (almost) never see a baseball do strange things and Newton works just fine. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> A string that is 6 inches long and one 7 inches long both have an infinite > number of points, but if I put 80 of the 6 inch strings into a hat and 20 > of the 7 inch ones and are blindfolded close and pick one out of the hat at > random and asked to make a bet on which sort of string I picked I would > place the odds at a 80% chance it would be 6 inches and 20% it would be 7 > inches. And if I consistently played that game and used those odds I would > soon make a lot of money. > -- 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/CAJPayv0pDupf94ydUyX2aN904Rf-Sx5q%3DmOG8QG982MjyWbyxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
