Thanks for the responses! Bill, thanks for pointing me to a good source. I ordered the book you referenced. Brage, thank you for your explanation. It nudged my slow brain along in the right direction.
I think I am missing a significant concept around this. One question that keeps popping up for...
I have hard time thinking the many worlds interpretation is correct. I also find its description imprecise. Here are some questions I would like someone to answer about the interpretation.
1. When a wave form photon hits a screen and become a particle form photon, this event splits the world...
Thanks Bill.
So for every photon on a double slip experiment that hits the screen and splits into different worlds, all other galaxies in the universe split too? Doesn't that on the face of it seem ridiculous? Considering the mind-blowing number of wave to particle quantum events just in our...
Thanks for the responses. So the multiple worlds outcome of a quantum event is local? That is, it does not extend to the entire universe for that one quantum event? I am not that skeptical of multiple worlds concept, but the idea of the split occurs for the entire universe is hard to believe...
I am confused by the 2 replies. "All MW does is assume instead of outcome i being realized the |bi><bi| are interpreted as separate worlds." This "interpreted" word sounds like a mental concept. Is every world "real" in one universe? Are the multiple worlds like a blossom of peddles in a local...
I ask this question because I am confused. I have seen two contradictory definitions.
In this link: http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/parallel-universe2.htm
The split causes a whole new universe.
In this link:http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/#2.1...
Thanks for your insights, Bill. I joined the forum to see if I could ask specific questions that did not seem clear to me. Your comments have been very helpful.
What I noticed with both string theory and with quantum mechanics is that for some the mathematics may be what makes them chose one...
Thanks Bill for your reply.
So every outcome but one (our world's outcome) creates a new world where the outcome is a particle like photon, but in slightly different positions alone the probability wave function, correct? So, is there an infinite number, each one being an infinitesimal distance...
I have a question regarding the quantum event when a wave live photon transforms into a particle like photon. In the many worlds interpretation there is a split into multiple worlds. My question is this: Do all the multiple worlds supposed to see the photon transform into a particle like photon...
I was not saying that at all. Re-read my post. I was saying speculating about things in a black box without any information is fine. Advocating for a specific interpretation or belief about what is in the black box is not a scientific argument. From a scientific point of view speculating is fine...
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was not insulting either religion or science. I was saying that the various interpretations were speculations into the black box of what is actually happening during the "collapse" event. I have read different people push one interpretation over...
I like science in part because I thought religion is irrelevant to science. Science is at its basis simply exploration married to intelligent analysis. When I read about quantum physics interpretations I hear about proponents (followers) of these different interpretations.
What is religion...