On 11/4/2024 2:45 PM, John Clark wrote:
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*
Only after you normalize it.
*, 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 other advocate of MWI I know insists that it only makes sense for
branch counting.
Brent
*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
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