On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Pierz <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just came across this presentation: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc > > It's a bit long, but I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts who is > knowledgeable on QM. I don't follow the maths, but I kind of got the gist. > What intrigued me was his interpretation of QM and I'm wondering if anyone > can throw any more light on it. He makes a lot of jumps which are obviously > clear in his mind but hard to follow. He says that MWI is supportable by > the maths, but that he prefers a "zero universes" interpretation, according > to which we are classical simulations in a quantum computer. I'm not sure I > follow this. I mean, I can follow the idea of being a classical simulation > in a quantum computer, but I can't see how this is different from MWI, > except by the manoeuvre of declaring other universes to be unreal because > they can never practically interact with 'our' branch. I guess what > interested me was the possibility of a coherent alternative to MWI (because > frankly MWI scares the willies out of me), but in spite of what he said, I > couldn't see what it was... >
Thanks Pierz, I really enjoyed this talk. Maybe because of the speaker's background in computer science, I feel he speaks my language more than the "real" physicists. My naive impression, also influenced by Bruno's comp, is like you say that I don't see the difference between MWI and "zero universes". I tend to think that the worlds in MWI are the first-person views, and that there is only one mind, ultimately. On the other hand, I heard about the "transactional interpretation of QM" for the first time, which is also intriguing. Best, Telmo. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
