On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 1:16 PM, <agrayson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since your conclusions seem immensely more bizarre than collapse of the wf, > > your interpretation of what the SE means must be in error. >
It's a matter of taste I suppose. To me everything that can happen does happen is less bizarre than the future influencing the past and things only existing when I look at them. But it really doesn't matter, as long as there is no logical self contradiction there is nothing wrong with bizarre . Occam's razor doesn't say we should embrace the least bizarre theory , it says we should embrace the simplest theory , and one that doesn't need to explain the collapse is simpler than one that does. Unlike Copenhagen Many Worlds has no need to to explain how when or why the wave function collapse s because the hypothesized collapse has no observable consequences. The wave collapse is a needless complication that does nothing but get rid of the multiverse for people who don't like the idea of a multiverse, its wheels within wheels rather like the epicycles of old for people who didn't like the idea of the planets going around the Sun rather than the Earth. The wave function says the multiverse exists, to get rid of it additional complications are needed and those complications do not improve the ability to predict experimental results one bit , so they have no point. 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.
