I completely agree with the answer above. I’ll also add that, on an object level, all of the models agree about the outcomes of every experiment we’ve ever been able to do. It really doesn’t matter whether you think of an isotope as having a 50% chance of decaying within 12 years, or whether you think of yourself as having a 50% amplitude, over the next `12 years, of branching into universes where the nucleus has decayed. As Feynman put it, “shut up and calculate”—the models work, but asking what they mean is a one-way ticket to epistemology.
I completely agree with the answer above. I’ll also add that, on an object level, all of the models agree about the outcomes of every experiment we’ve ever been able to do. It really doesn’t matter whether you think of an isotope as having a 50% chance of decaying within 12 years, or whether you think of yourself as having a 50% amplitude, over the next `12 years, of branching into universes where the nucleus has decayed. As Feynman put it, “shut up and calculate”—the models work, but asking what they mean is a one-way ticket to epistemology.