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Question from someone scarcely more knowledgeable on QM than a layperson. To my understanding, early in QM's study, some thought observation by a conscious being was required to collapse a wave function. I was told here that said Copenhagen interpretation(?) is only considered by people like...

We may bump every 24 hours, right?

Ooh, yeah! Something like that might work! But not that exactly, of course.

I do plan on multiple threads. The MC had a psychologically and physically traumatic event after years down the "Cephs from another timeline" conspiracy rabbit hole that he now doesn't remember, and, without too much irrelevant detail, dreamed of a marriage with Biologist when really he was...

It doesn't seem to mention anything related to my idea except aliens, which my cephs aren't exactly anyway.

Other planets aren't involved. It's an alternate Earth, a different world/timeline or set of them, as in the MWI, that diverged from ours 500-700 (there might be different estimates) million years ago. I want to be able to say "Dr. Sam is working on x while characters A and C are exploring the...

I have a story idea involving MWI and a world where the evolutionary branches that would produce octopuses and mammals split 500+ million years ago. A group of conspiracy theorists think cephalopods became the dominant species in some worlds and want to "visit," and it might be possible. I want...

I'm sure as heck confused. Ignorant, anyway. What's a good intro to this stuff for someone who only went as far as Calc I?

That was Greek to me. The person before you also seems to have given a "yes, it is." Would someone please explain in basic terms? >_<

Thanks.

I meant to type something like "I figured it [multi-quoting] out." I don't really understand decoherence, which, I gather, begins the "split" that's finalized when decoherence completes. I saw it compared to untangling. Would you please explain? And thanks for the bit about interference.

What is quantum interference? Could different worlds theoretically interfere with each other?

Thanks!

(Mods, I posted a lot on the MWI yesterday, but this seemed different enough to warrant its own thread. If you disagree, I apologize.) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says the following in its article on the Many Worlds Interpretation: Is this backed by science? It reminds me of...