On Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 3:39:00 PM UTC, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 4:08 PM, <agrays...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > *>>> Do you really think that when you pull a slot machine and get >>>> some outcome, the 10 million other possible outcomes occur in 10 million >>>> other universe? * >>>> >>> >>> >> >>> I could be wrong but that would be my best guess. >>> >> >> > >> Is the slot machine duplicated in those 10 million new universes? >> > > > If the Schrodinger > > Wave Equation really means what it says then the answer can only be yes. >
Since your conclusions seem immensely more bizarre than collapse of the wf, your interpretation of what the SE means must be in error. AG > The > > Copenhagen > > people felt that was > just > too strange so they stuck stuff into their theory that the mathematics > alone didn't say, as a result they got rid of one form of weirdness, the > multiverse, but inadvertently created two new forms of weirdness: the > future can effect the past and things only exist when you look at them. > There is just no way to stamp out the weird from the quantum world and be > consistent with experiment. > > > > >> And the gambler cranking it? And the casino? And the city where the >> casino is resident? And Andromeda, and beyond, up to and including the BB? >> > > Yes, and that raises another question, how can the MWI produce finite > probabilities if infinite numbers are involved? To make matters even worse > the infinite numbers involved are not even countable. The answer is not all > those universes change the probability. > > If I paint a number of disks on a wall of various diameters then put a > blindfold on and throw darts at the wall there are a uncountably > > infinite number of points that dart could hit, but my eye is not perfect > so there are only a finite number spots on that wall that I can consciously > distinguish > , > and there are more of those spots in the large disks than the small ones > so there are more distinguishable versions of me seeing the dart hit the > larger disk than the smaller. > > To get back to the slot machine, > > if > the > Schrodinger > Wave is correct > there are more than 10 million versions of me looking at that slot > machine, infinitely more in fact, but the version of me where a pebble on a > planet in the Andromeda Galaxy is a quarter inch to the left is not > consciously discernible by me from a universe where the pebble is a quarter > inch to the right, and so when I consciously calculate probabilities the > two > universes > can be lumped together. > > > John K Clark > > > > > > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
