On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*>It's just the Schroedinger equation plus the rule that once your world is
>>> orthogonal to others, they vanish.*
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>
> *>> What a disappointment! By adding that one unnecessary rule you've
>> implicitly added an astronomical number, and possibly an infinite number,
>> of assumptions; *
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> *> It's not an assumption. It's a consistently observed fact, *
>
*If Quantum Mechanics is correct, and I think it's a pretty damn good
assumption that it is, then in the Schrodinger cat experiment you've got a
superposition of 2 quantum states, { [ ( a live cat) + (the environment
with a live cat in it) + (Brent Meeker in that environment looking at a
live cat) ] + [ ( a dead live cat) + (the environment with a dead cat
in it) + (Brent Meeker in that environment looking at a dead cat)] }. Thus
Brent Meeker#1 would say it is an observable fact that the cat is alive and
Brent Meeker#2 would say it is an observable fact that the cat is not
alive.*
*> I have never presented or defended the view that a person or other being
> has to look at something to split worlds.*
*If you're not satisfied with "Shut Up And Calculate" and you don't use the
Many Worlds argument then explain to me how the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester
could possibly work. *
*Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_tester>
*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
ezb
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