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.
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.