On 9/16/2019 2:54 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:22 AM Alan Grayson <agrayson2...@gmail.com
<mailto:agrayson2...@gmail.com>> wrote:
/> When physics began to give non-intuitive results, in QM
*and* Relativity, people when overboard. Now any patently absurd
result finds its justification among true believers./
And in this context "patently absurd" means odd, not logically
contradictory not paradoxical not contrary to experimental results,
just odd. But as far as we know there is no law that says nature can't
behave in ways that humans find odd.
/> So what happened to the (non-covariant) wf after the
measurement? Nothing./
True, and that's what Many Worlds says, nothing happens to
the Schrödinger wave of the universe described by his equation, it
just keeps on going forever.
> Like a horserace when it reaches conclusion, it's no longer
applicable. That simple! The collapse hypothesis is just a
bookkeeping device to get rid of it!
True again, the collapse hypothesis was tacked on not because it
explained observations better but because some people didn't like
those many worlds, so they just said some mysterious process makes
them disappear even though they can't clearly explain how this process
does this or explain exactly what circumstances are needed for it to
take effect. In Sean Carroll's new book, which I just started reading,
he says Many Worlds could be called Austere Quantum Mechanics because
it adds nothing to Schrödinger's Equation because nothing more is
needed to explain observations.
You still need the Born rule, including its intepretation as a probability.
Brent
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