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    Graduate Problems with Many Worlds Interpretation

    Cute ... a nice "glass half full" way to look at our life with mystery.
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    Graduate Problems with Many Worlds Interpretation

    I believe most physicists would be surprised to find an experiment that could distinguish Many Worlds vs. Copenhagen. (Trying to come up with such might be a useful way to understand these models. E.g.: Would transitioning into a universe in which someone spontaneously exploded disprove...
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    Undergrad What is the significance of high-speed gas particles in Earth's atmosphere?

    Assuming this thread is still of interest after lo these many months ... I Googled upon this posting because I was musing along similar lines. My further thoughts to get the time constant needed in the above suggestion: Imagine painting those molecules that are beyond escape velocity red. Now a...