But you’re assuming a theory in which “reality fluid” is conserved.
Well, yes, I’m assuming that QM is correct. That’s kind of the point: we’re talking about predictions of QM.
I mean, if that were true, my experiences would be getting rapidly and exponentially less real as time progresses and I decohere with more and more parts of the wave function.
No… why do you think that you would be able to feel it? It seems to me rather like the argument that the Earth can’t be moving since we don’t feel a strong wind.
An important part of QM being a linear theory is that it is 100% independent of overall amplitude. Scale everything up or down by an arbitrary (finite nonzero) factor and all the bits on the inside work exactly the same.
So, whether something likely happens or something unlikely happens, the only difference between those two outcomes is a matter of scale and whatever it was that happened differently.
QM has no “reality fluid”. The whole point of calling it “reality fluid” is to remind yourself that it’s standing in for some assumptions about measure theory which are fuzzy and unproven.
My own (equally fuzzy and unproven) notion about measure theory is that anything which has nonzero amplitude, exists. Yes, you can then ask why probabilistic predictions seem to work, while my measure theory would seem to suggest that everything should be 50⁄50 (“maybe it happens, maybe it doesn’t; that’s 50/50”). But I believe that there is some form of entropy in the wave function, and that probable outcomes are high-entropy outcomes. No, I obviously don’t have the math on this worked out; but neither do you on the “reality fluid”.
I could easily be wrong. So could you. Probably, we both are. Measure theory is not a solved problem.
Well, yes, I’m assuming that QM is correct. That’s kind of the point: we’re talking about predictions of QM.
No… why do you think that you would be able to feel it? It seems to me rather like the argument that the Earth can’t be moving since we don’t feel a strong wind.
An important part of QM being a linear theory is that it is 100% independent of overall amplitude. Scale everything up or down by an arbitrary (finite nonzero) factor and all the bits on the inside work exactly the same.
So, whether something likely happens or something unlikely happens, the only difference between those two outcomes is a matter of scale and whatever it was that happened differently.
QM has no “reality fluid”. The whole point of calling it “reality fluid” is to remind yourself that it’s standing in for some assumptions about measure theory which are fuzzy and unproven.
My own (equally fuzzy and unproven) notion about measure theory is that anything which has nonzero amplitude, exists. Yes, you can then ask why probabilistic predictions seem to work, while my measure theory would seem to suggest that everything should be 50⁄50 (“maybe it happens, maybe it doesn’t; that’s 50/50”). But I believe that there is some form of entropy in the wave function, and that probable outcomes are high-entropy outcomes. No, I obviously don’t have the math on this worked out; but neither do you on the “reality fluid”.
I could easily be wrong. So could you. Probably, we both are. Measure theory is not a solved problem.
QM may not have ‘reality fluid’, but the thing we’re tongue-in-cheek calling ‘reality fluid’ is conserved under QM!