On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 1:25 AM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * > Well, there's a big fat hint that it [SE] breaks down FAPP in every > measurement, in every bit of physics that appears classical and > irreversible. * The thing is, whenever somebody says FAPP they really don't mean for *ALL* practical purposes, certainly not if your practical purpose is to probe the fundamental nature of reality. In classical physics it's not literally impossible for the scrambled eggs on your breakfast plate to unscramble themselves before you have a chance to eat them, it's just very very unlikely. But if Many Worlds is correct then there are either an infinite number or an astronomical number to an astronomical power number of worlds where everything that is not forbidden to occur does occur, and one of the things that is not forbidden to occur is a world in which scrambled eggs unscramble themselves on your breakfast plate. If something happens a very very large number of times then even very very unlikely things will happen in some of them. * > And it might just be an effective approximation as in QBism.* > QBism is not wrong, it's an effective way to do science if you're only interested in measurements and in making a new gadget that works and don't care about what's really going on; the same thing could be said about the Copenhagen Interpretation, and also for the all time favorite of most physicists, Shut Up And Calculate. But I find it extremely difficult to find any significant difference between QBism, Copenhagen and Shut Up And Calculate. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> suq -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3Sxd6N6Q5HHeF7QZ4TKm%2BBgNRt89%2B68GxxoaBW-kmQxA%40mail.gmail.com.
