On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 5:18 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> *>> All** Many World says** is that Schrodinger's equation always holds >> true, and Schrodinger's equation is 100% deterministic,* > > > *That's not quite true. The equation determines probabilities. * > *Schrodinger's Equation determines the quantum wave and that wave is 100% deterministic, but it's not observable, and it includes negative numbers as well as imaginary numbers. The square of the absolute value of the wave function always produces a positive real number between zero and one, and all the numbers always add up to exactly one, which is just what you want for a probability. And a probability is observable. * > * "Self-locating uncertainty" is postulated. * > *Yes.* *> But are their different weights of "self"* > *Yes. * *> or is it branch counting? * > *No, branch counting could never work. The way I like to think about it, and this is only an analogy and not to be taken too seriously,** is that some of the branches are thicker than others, so if you had to bet which branch you were on you would do better to bet you were in the thicker one.* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* jrb -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2DqQLscYpO0pPBD5REbFDnvXcgvRYR0wR5hU3AzapGRA%40mail.gmail.com.
