Both MWI and collapse make me nervous about whether people are losing their ability to see their own shadow or their own reflection in the mirror. A collapse of something which does not represent a physical extent to begin with is like the vanilla ice cream cone which does not taste like chocolate. Genius. Many worlds fails the conservation of mass and energy, although its general shape is on the right track. It also fails the fact that there either are no such things as experiments isolated in their own category separate from every other interaction or that every interaction is an experiment.
I’ve said before many colors of light combine to produce exactly one color because our eyes cannot Fourrier transform the mixed frequencies the way our ears can do with sound. It’s mixed and stuck there way before the brain gets the signal.
Collapse is silly because there is a collapse of a description not of an event. Not worth fighting over.
MWI ignores every other interaction. Why does there have to be an exact you as long as the result is complementary? Why can’t it be a detector that keeps notes?
Both lack the same information: What could shut down a collapse or a split midway? Can we see half a collapse? Forget the half dead cat. What about the half cracked container of poison? Or maybe even the half loaded pistol that half broke it?
Why can’t the the other side have a half cracked bottle while this side has a half crack box? Why can’t the other world have a hammer while this one has a pistol? Or for that matter a high pitched opera singer woken up by the decay of the radioactive material?
Experiments distract us from the other parts that are more mundane but still crucial to the experiments.
And why is it multi world if in fact it is the superposition rather than the division?
I use a heuristic that says, if the theory is all shiny it’s begging for someone to dent it.
Many worlds fails the conservation of mass and energy, although its general shape is on the right track.
That’s not even close to how it works.
It also fails the fact that there either are no such things as experiments isolated in their own category separate from every other interaction or that every interaction is an experiment.
Of all of the objections to MWI I’ve heard, that is the weirdest. MWI is the least attached to the notion of experimenters and observation, while still enabling them to be understood, out of all interpretations I’ve seen.
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Where are the half-shot pistols? Well, you find a pistol that’s balanced on the knife edge between firing and not firing, in a normal mechanical sense, that you pushed on the trigger until it was just about to fire and then stopped so close that the spring didn’t restore it to the relaxed position, so close that this state isn’t stable. Now, wait. That issue is continuously being resolved one way and the other, firing and relaxing from firing, with those variations decohering rapidly; but here we are, still experiencing that rapidly attenuating middle.
Both MWI and collapse make me nervous about whether people are losing their ability to see their own shadow or their own reflection in the mirror. A collapse of something which does not represent a physical extent to begin with is like the vanilla ice cream cone which does not taste like chocolate. Genius. Many worlds fails the conservation of mass and energy, although its general shape is on the right track. It also fails the fact that there either are no such things as experiments isolated in their own category separate from every other interaction or that every interaction is an experiment.
I’ve said before many colors of light combine to produce exactly one color because our eyes cannot Fourrier transform the mixed frequencies the way our ears can do with sound. It’s mixed and stuck there way before the brain gets the signal.
Collapse is silly because there is a collapse of a description not of an event. Not worth fighting over. MWI ignores every other interaction. Why does there have to be an exact you as long as the result is complementary? Why can’t it be a detector that keeps notes?
Both lack the same information: What could shut down a collapse or a split midway? Can we see half a collapse? Forget the half dead cat. What about the half cracked container of poison? Or maybe even the half loaded pistol that half broke it?
Why can’t the the other side have a half cracked bottle while this side has a half crack box? Why can’t the other world have a hammer while this one has a pistol? Or for that matter a high pitched opera singer woken up by the decay of the radioactive material?
Experiments distract us from the other parts that are more mundane but still crucial to the experiments.
And why is it multi world if in fact it is the superposition rather than the division?
I use a heuristic that says, if the theory is all shiny it’s begging for someone to dent it.
That’s not even close to how it works.
Of all of the objections to MWI I’ve heard, that is the weirdest. MWI is the least attached to the notion of experimenters and observation, while still enabling them to be understood, out of all interpretations I’ve seen.
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Where are the half-shot pistols? Well, you find a pistol that’s balanced on the knife edge between firing and not firing, in a normal mechanical sense, that you pushed on the trigger until it was just about to fire and then stopped so close that the spring didn’t restore it to the relaxed position, so close that this state isn’t stable. Now, wait. That issue is continuously being resolved one way and the other, firing and relaxing from firing, with those variations decohering rapidly; but here we are, still experiencing that rapidly attenuating middle.
That’s what it feels like.