Recent content by SDM88

I understand it doesn't matter practically speaking, but my goal is to find out if it can technically happen or not. I suspect that it can't happen in any universe, perhaps due to hidden variables or some other mechanism. Do you think it has a greater than 0 probability of occurring? Same...

I like this example. Some people will argue that all you demonstrated is that the probability of falling through the floor is vanishingly small. If it is true that there are an infinite number of universes, they will argue that it is a certainty that people will fall through the floor in some...

Thanks! So I read it and listened to some of the podcast. Can you help me understand how this might cast doubt on macro tunneling for example? I think I understand that he is saying something like the macro world is an abstraction, but I don't see what it tells us about what can or can not...

Just to be clear, when I say fall through my chair, I mean pass through my chair... As if it were a gas.

Does this mean that their are scientists who disagree that QM implies we can fall through our chairs?

Basically I have just watched a lot of different youtube videos over the years. I also have read Max Tegmark's Mathamatical Universe book. I understand the many worlds interpretation, I just don't have a great grasp of what kinds of worlds necessarily have to exist. I subscribe to many worlds...

Can you expand on this please? What is the reasoning in which things that are seemingly plausible might not happen in any universe?

I don't have good references yet and am hoping you all can help me understand my pop-sci reading. I have read that quantum mechanics implies that there is a very small probability that I can fall right through my chair, or suddenly appear on the moon among other crazy things. I subscribe to the...