But there is no criticism of the old theory! At least, no criticism that isn’t easily dismantled by proponents of the old theory. There is no problem that is wrong with the old theory!
This is not some thought experiment, either. This situation is actually happening, right now, with the Copenhagen and Many Worlds interpretations of quantum physics. Copenhagen has the clumsy ‘decoherence’, Many Worlds has the elegant, well, many worlds. The event that supports Many Worlds strongly but also supports Copenhagen weakly is the double-slit experiment.
Bad example. Decoherence is a phenomenon that exists in any interpretation of quantum mechanics, and is heavily used in MWI as a tool to explain when branches effectively no longer interact.
But the Copenhagen interpretation has no defense. It doesn’t even make sense.
Decoherence is a major concept in MWI. Maybe if you learned the arguments on both sides the situation would be clearer to you.
I think you’ve basically given up on the possibility of arguing reaching a conclusion, without even learning the views of both sides first. There are conclusive arguments to be found—on this topic and many others—and plenty of unanswered and unanswerable criticisms of Copenhagen.
Conclusive doesn’t mean infallible, but it does mean that it actually resolves the issue and doesn’t allow for:
easily dismantled by proponents of the old theory
The original statement was:
Now, one of these theories is a little older, a little more supported by scientists, a little clunkier, a little less parsimonious.
But there is no criticism of the old theory! At least, no criticism that isn’t easily dismantled by proponents of the old theory. There is no problem that is wrong with the old theory!
This is not some thought experiment, either. This situation is actually happening, right now, with the Copenhagen and Many Worlds interpretations of quantum physics. Copenhagen has the clumsy ‘decoherence’, Many Worlds has the elegant, well, many worlds. The event that supports Many Worlds strongly but also supports Copenhagen weakly is the double-slit experiment.
Bad example. Decoherence is a phenomenon that exists in any interpretation of quantum mechanics, and is heavily used in MWI as a tool to explain when branches effectively no longer interact.
I think he meant wave-form collapse.
But the Copenhagen interpretation has no defense. It doesn’t even make sense.
Decoherence is a major concept in MWI. Maybe if you learned the arguments on both sides the situation would be clearer to you.
I think you’ve basically given up on the possibility of arguing reaching a conclusion, without even learning the views of both sides first. There are conclusive arguments to be found—on this topic and many others—and plenty of unanswered and unanswerable criticisms of Copenhagen.
Conclusive doesn’t mean infallible, but it does mean that it actually resolves the issue and doesn’t allow for:
The original statement was:
Clunkier is a criticism.