On Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 5:08:36 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote:
On 11/19/2024 3:12 AM, PGC wrote: Your critique of MWI as "bad taste" because of its proliferation of worlds is understandable, but for me, collapse is far stranger and less intuitive. But the "collapse" is still there for you in MWI. As far as anything you can observer or experience or measure a single possibility occurs and this is explained by the action of decoherence splitting your world away from the other possibilities. The only difference is whether you imagine those other worlds as existing or you say that probabilities mean one is realized and the other's are not. If *you don't say that* then you will have trouble saying what those probabilities refer to. Brent PGC doesn't realize that the so-called collapse perfectly describe what happens in a measurement process; except for the measurement which is realized, all other probabilities converge to zero, and the realized measurement converges to 1. IOW, the wf converges to a delta function. So collapse per se, isn't the problem. Rather, the problem is how the measurement process occurs; how it happens; what governs the process? This is the real mystery; not the collapse, which just correctly describes at a top level, what happens. AG -- 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/a57057a1-6e92-40f7-8cf7-e0aecd7df69en%40googlegroups.com.
