On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 02:37:38PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 1/6/2025 12:49 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > > Why do you think that just because there are two outcomes (up/down, > say), there will be precisely two branches generated? > > Because if "it's just the Schroedinger equation" that is what it predicts. > If different numbers of branches are to be generated in order to produce > the Born rule by branch counting then that is a set of additional assumptions. >
The theory doesn't say that only two branches are created in this situation - it could as easily be 1 million indistinguishable up branches and 1 million indistinguishable down branches. The only justifiable way of assigning a probability to a branch is the 50/50 case, when physical symmetry implies seeing either outcome is equally likely. Do you consider this "indifference principle" an additional assumption? I don't really see it as such, its more definitional. In order to apply branch counting, you must further subdivide the actual branches until each branch is physically symmetric. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/Z3xeiVx5sCUpwFQQ%40zen.
