On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 9:06 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Does your preferred quantum interpretation, whatever it is, do any better > in that regard? If several quantum interpretations produce identical > observable results then Occam's Razor says that the preferred one would be > the one that makes the fewest assumptions. And that would be Many Worlds. I > remind you that all those many many worlds are NOT an assumption, instead > they are a CONSEQUENCE of simply assuming that Schrodinger's equation means > what it says, and the equation says NOTHING about a wave function > collapsing.* > Schrodinger's equation says nothing at all about the wave function. For example, if it is not real but only epistemic, then there is no need for a physical collapse. The Schrodinger equation does not say that the wave function is a physically real object -- that is an additional assumption in the Many-worlds interpretation. If one does not make that assumption, the the wave function can be seen as merely a device for calculating the evolution of probabilities, and there are no extra worlds.... 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRsXqLpDe%2BqZkC3avRutdK3PkVT9nZ%2B4LcmLK7me_3qWg%40mail.gmail.com.
