ThisIsMyName said:
Dmitry67, no.
Neither is a spherical Earth falsified just because our senses tells us that the Earth is flat.
Let's say you set up a experiment much like the Schroedingers Cat.
Except instead of having the cat die/live let's picture 2 light bulps.
1 Red and 1 Blue.
Probability for the red one lighting up 0.001 and 0.999 for the blue one.
Carry out this experiment 1000 times in a row, and you'll have 1 occurence of red light, and 999 of blue light.
In the MWI picture, you'd expect to see 50/50 of red and blue lights since the universe branch off into 2 results everytime.
1 blue light universe and 1 red light universe.
There are 2^1000 outcomes with different light histories, and 1001 outcomes with different light counts. Each of these outcomes has a different amplitude. You're choosing to associate "universes" with light histories, which is a fairly arbitrary choice.
It is not very intuitive what "amplitude" means. This term is best treated mathematically, not intuitively. However, try to think of it this way. Suppose your system rolls a 1000-sided dice and the red light lights up only when the dice shows 1. At each step, there are 1000 "internal" outcomes, but the information about the internal outcome is lost. So, external observers think that there are only two possible outcomes. Furthermore, a naive observer might say "but wait, you expect to see 50/50 of red and blue lights, because there are only two universes at each step!" And this is obviously wrong.
You really have to think big (or small, Planck-scale small). For any splitting that you can "touch and feel" (like in this case, red light vs blue light) there are myriads of splittings and joinings occurring every 10^-43 seconds in every point, and they all create a nice-looking continuous picture if we wash over most of the details.
The question that needs to be asked is not so much the Born rule itself, but rather, "why do we expect to find ourselves in a universe with a high amplitude"? (Note the vague wording - you can't even formulate that kind of question properly!) And I believe it can be demonstrated (as I said in the other thread) that you can derive the Born rule from the axiom that universe-wide probability is monotonously related to the norm of the amplitude.
We probably need a complete QG theory to make sense of everything. Maybe there's a finite, discrete number of universes, and low-amplitude universes die off at some point. That's really an implementation detail.