VZ Nuri writes: > hi all. I just read an amazing factoid in john gribbins > "search for sch.cat". it says that wheeler, in spite > of his initial enthusiasm for MWI & promoting it, and being > the advisor to everett, eventually abandoned > it, feeling it "carried too much metaphysical baggage" > or something like that. I was not aware of that. is > everyone else? I wonder if there are other refs on the > subject. I will quote the gribbin section if ppl are interested.
Yes, I'd heard this. I wrote last June about my perceptions of Wheeler's shifts of positions at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3699.html. My speculation was that he didn't like being known as just a supporter of someone else's theory, that he wanted to come up with his own idea. However in the recent Scientific American article co-authored with Max Tegmark, they seemed to endorse the MWI pretty strongly. Hal Finney
