On a purely fun note, sometimes I imagine our universe running on such “willingness to pay” for each quantum event. At each point in time various entities observing this universe bid on each quantum event, and the next point in time is computed from the bid winners.
Hah, the auction interpretation of Quantum Mechanics! Wonder what restrictions would need to be imposed on the bidders in order to preserve both the entanglement and relativity.
They could be merely aliens with their supertelescopes trained on us, with their planet rigged to explode if the observation doesn’t match the winning bid, abusing quantum immorality.
On a purely fun note, sometimes I imagine our universe running on such “willingness to pay” for each quantum event. At each point in time various entities observing this universe bid on each quantum event, and the next point in time is computed from the bid winners.
Hah, the auction interpretation of Quantum Mechanics! Wonder what restrictions would need to be imposed on the bidders in order to preserve both the entanglement and relativity.
They could be merely aliens with their supertelescopes trained on us, with their planet rigged to explode if the observation doesn’t match the winning bid, abusing quantum immorality.
I’m not clear on whether or not this is a good thing.
(Even if it works, you’ll never abuse it, because you never getting around to abusing it is much more probable than doing it and surviving.)
Humor seems to have obscured my point:
“Immorality” versus “Immortality”.