On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 8:58 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:55 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 11/28/2023 1:33 PM, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 4:22 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> That is incorrect. Schrodinger's equation, the thing that generates >>>> the complex wave function, says nothing, absolutely nothing, about that >>>> wave function collapsing, So if you don't like philosophical paradoxes but >>>> still want to use Schrodinger's equation because it always gives correct >>>> results, you only have 2 options: >>>> 1) You can stick on bells and whistles to Schrodinger's equation to >>>> get rid of those other worlds that you find so annoying even though there's >>>> no experimental evidence that they are needed. >>> >>> >>> > *You can do exactly the same thing the MWI fans do and apply the Born >>> rule to predict the probability of your world. * >>> >> >> That is absolutely correct. If you're an engineer and are only >> interested in finding the correct answer to a given problem then Shut Up >> And Calculate works just fine. MWI is only needed if you're curious and >> want to look under the hood to figure out what could possibly make the >> quantum realm behave so weirdly. >> >> >> Except that in spite of many attempts the application of the Born rule >> isn't found under the hood. >> > > > Is it found in Copenhagen? > Born was not based in Copenhagen. But for the so-called "Copenhagen" interpretation, the Born Rule is a necessary additional hypothesis in order to connect the theory with experiment. You have to explain the origin of probabilities somehow, and the Born rule simply associates them with the square of the amplitudes of the eigenfunctions in the wave function. This still leaves the basis question unresolved, but decoherence has given some clues about the answer to that question. MWI has no clue about how to resolve the basis question. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLQHm7dh_ykhXfozp3nFESL-E%3D5paa9ygJENUUEYqRtagA%40mail.gmail.com.
