On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> *>>> I propose Meeker's equation, which is the same as Schrodinger's >> equation except that the worlds orthogonal to our own disappear when they >> become orthogonal. Meeker's equation has also shown to be correct by all >> known tests. * > > > *>> You're too late, the objective collapse people have already modified > Schrödinger's equation by adding a nonlinear randomly determined term to it > that makes an already difficult to solve equation far far more difficult. * > > *> Hence the advantage of the Meeker equation which is no harder to solve > than Schroedinger's equation.* > *If you have really found such a marvelous equation you should publish a paper and let the world know about it! * *>> if you're worried because at the cosmological level according to >> General Relativity mass/energy is not conserved then you should be even >> more worried because if objective collapse is correct then energy is not >> conserved in quantum mechanics either, kinetic energy increases at a >> constant rate. * > > > *> Sebens and Carroll already published a paper several years ago showing > that energy is not generally conserved in any single branch of a Many > Worlds measurement event. Only the averaged value of energy is conserved > in the limit of many events. * > *Yes but at least it remains true at the multiverse level but even if Many Worlds is wrong, according to General Relativity, mass/energy is still not conserved at the cosmological level, and that prediction has been confirmed by observation; however according to unmodified quantum mechanics, mass/energy is conserved at the submicroscopic quantum level, and that observation has also been confirmed to the limits of precision of every known experiments. But if you modify Schrodinger's equation, as the Objective collapse people want to do, then it no longer obeys mass/energy conservation. * *So if you're a fan of mass/energy conservation you should be a fan of Many Worlds, not objective collapse. It's odd that some criticize the Many Worlds idea because they think it violates a conservation law.* * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* wmf -- 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/CAJPayv1VUOGyFBDqC7GRnr4EDRsaQ_FSvt7V%2BVYnBQS48hynsA%40mail.gmail.com.
