On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
*>>> I think you think MWI is correct simply because you don't know of any >> alternatives. * >> > > > *>>Guilty as charged. I've said more than once that Many Worlds is the > least bad explanation for quantum weirdness that I know of, if somebody > comes up with something better I'll drop it like a hot potato. * > > *> So did you read any of the papers I cited?* > *Yes I did but I'm still a Many Worlds fan. Two of the papers you cited were written by the same people and were talking about Objective Collapse, as I've said before, if Many Worlds turns out to be untrue I'd switch over to that view. Another paper was also talking about Objective Collapse but modified things a bit so that the collapse was a continuous evolution rather than a sudden jump, that's nice but doesn't change things fundamentally. * *And the Steven Weinberg paper suggests that we could stop using Schrodinger's wave equation entirely and switch over to something that was mathematically equivalent, something that was similar to Werner Heisenberg's matrix approach which strictly insisted that only observable quantities be used. Both methods provided the right answer but Schrodinger's approach proved much more popular because it was easier to use and gave a better (although still not very good) intuitive understanding about what was going on. Can you honestly say that after reading Weinberg's paper thanks to those matrices you are able to form a better mental image about what's happening at the most fundamental level of the very weird quantum world? I sure can't! * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* sib > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3sN%2BFSX9J5%3D_NJYtxVr1Rm0Okt_4BJZR88CEPs7CsinQ%40mail.gmail.com.
