On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:12 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> The distinctive feature of Everettian Many worlds theory is that every > possible outcome is realized on every trial. I don't think that you have > absorbed the full significance of this revolutionary idea. There is no > classical analogue of this behaviour* It's not perfect, no analogy is, but classical thermodynamics can provide a pretty good analogy. There is an initial condition microstate for the room that I'm in right now that, at the macrostate level, looks pretty much like any other macrostate; however, just due to the laws of classical physics that particular microstate is such that in 30 seconds all the air in the room will gather in a one square foot volume in the lower left corner of the room, and as a result I suffocate to death. The particular microstate that would cause that to happen is no more unlikely to occur than any other microstate, but it is *VASTLY* outnumbered by microstates in which it doesn't happen. So the odds that the room that I'm in right now just happens to be in that one particular microstate are ridiculously low, but they are not zero. So if you were a bookie you could probably make quite a lot of money by betting that John Clark will not suffocate in the next 30 seconds, but there is a very small chance you will not. The difference with the classical is that in the Everettian view every possible outcome is realized, so there is a world it which Bruce Kellett makes different life choices in his youth and decides to become a bookie and John Clark suffocates to death and bookie Bruce Kellett loses money, but that world is *VASTLY* outnumbered by worlds in which other things happen. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3vXosk5Dw-C%3D1aSMMyfiqvQe%2BobA5R5mmzLXvDS_wDJw%40mail.gmail.com.
