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JohnColorado
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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
"The concept of a world in the MWI is based on the layman's conception of a world; however, several features are different. Obviously, the definition of the world as everything that exists does not hold in the MWI. “Everything that exists” is the Universe, and there is only one Universe."
So even the concept of world is in dispute. I find it hard to believe that the split of the entire universe occurs multiple times for every quantum event.. So if a photon is measured, the whole universe is split multiple times. All the millions of galaxies 5 billion light years away are also split multiple times?
It sounds like a mathematical solution in search of a physical universe. Do the physicists who think this is correct basically mathematicians who what it to be true because of the mathematical elegance of the solution?
Thanks,
John
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
"The concept of a world in the MWI is based on the layman's conception of a world; however, several features are different. Obviously, the definition of the world as everything that exists does not hold in the MWI. “Everything that exists” is the Universe, and there is only one Universe."
So even the concept of world is in dispute. I find it hard to believe that the split of the entire universe occurs multiple times for every quantum event.. So if a photon is measured, the whole universe is split multiple times. All the millions of galaxies 5 billion light years away are also split multiple times?
It sounds like a mathematical solution in search of a physical universe. Do the physicists who think this is correct basically mathematicians who what it to be true because of the mathematical elegance of the solution?
Thanks,
John