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How many branches are possible after measurement/splitting?
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[QUOTE="lukephysics, post: 6895132, member: 694148"] [B]TL;DR Summary:[/B] How many branches are possible after measurement? Say you have a simplified 1d Gaussian wave function describing location of a particle. Many worlds says that every outcome is a separate branch. Copenhagen says you will get one of those branches. So how many distinct positions, imaginary or real, can you generate from a fixed segment of a Gaussian curve? Are there N plank lengths under that curve? Can those plank lengths be divided in half, or 10 or more? Interesting thought, I can see no difference between Copenhagen and many worlds from the perspective of an observer. They are functionally the same. I guess this is sensible otherwise measurement would be wrong for one or the other. [/QUOTE]
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