*https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1103 <https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1103>* > > > *>> "MWI really is just the “obvious, straightforward” reading of quantum > mechanics itself, if you take quantum mechanics literally as a description > of the whole universe, and assume nothing new will ever be discovered that > changes the picture."* > > *> I agree with Aaronson that it's going too far to try to make an analogy > between MMI and the Copernican revolution because it's hard to imagine any > new discovery which would make us reconsider our conclusion that the Earth > is not the center of the universe, however it it is possible to imagine > something that would cause us to conclude that many worlds is wrong, > objective collapse is one example. * > > > > *"**as soon as we postulate any decoherence (whatever its source) that > occurs below the level of everyday experience, and that’s truly > irreversible for fundamental physical reasons … at that point, I would say > that we can now fully explain our experience without any reference to > parallel copies of ourselves in other branches, and are therefore not > forced into MWIism."* > > *Apparently Aaronson agrees with me that Many Worlds is a legitimate > scientific theory because it is falsifiable. * > > > *> * *Alan Grayson <[email protected] <[email protected]>> > wrote:*
*Since the worlds are disjoint, they don't interact, and the MWI is > obviously NOT falsifiable. AG * > *No experiment can prove a theory is correct but given the fact that an experiment has been proposed (several in fact) and will probably be performed sometime in the next few years that has the potential to prove that MWI is false, the only logical conclusion is that MWI is falsifiable. * *Towards Quantum Superpositions of a Mirror* <https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~quopt/tow.pdf> * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* n56 -- 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/CAJPayv140yggtSigEza-vrmTf8k-hB5x9nxOUShrzFP9AKRFZQ%40mail.gmail.com.
