On 11/14/2024 7:29 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 6:24 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]>
wrote:
...
/>The Neo-Copenhagen interpretation which says decoherence somehow
selects which probability is realized/
*For some reason when I read the word "somehow" in the above I
remembered an old joke "Besides that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the
play?".
*
It's no worse than "MW somehow implements the Born rule."
/> I see short comings in all the interpretations. /
*I have said more than once that Many Worldsis the best bad quantum
interpretation, maybe tomorrow somebody will come up with something
better, but until then I'm sticking with Many Worlds, if it's wrong
it's probably because it's not strange enough because no
interpretation is ever going to get rid of quantum weirdness. *
/> Maybe least in the epistemic interpretation, although the PBR
theorem purports to show it's inconsistent with standard QM. /
*Indeed.
*
But the PBR theorem has loop holes:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06436
/> There's also superdeterminism
/
*Superdeterminism?! I think that's the single stupidest idea in all of
physics because it's literally impossible to have a greater violation
of Occam's razor. For superdeterminism to work you need to make, not
an astronomical number but an _INFINITE_ number of assumptions, out of
the infinite number of states the early universe could have been in
only one of them will work.*
If the universe is in a single infinite state, then it takes a higher
order of infinity for MW to have reached that state.
And I notice you skipped over retro-causality. There's also Invariant
Set Theory
Brent
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