I can think of a few reasons why you would do this, although I’m not sure which one you had in mind.
Primarily, it’s to evaluate the extent to which we commenters accept what you say on face value, particularly when we’re not well informed to begin with. I don’t mean picking at the specifics of examples, but whether we’re evaluating what you’re saying for internal consistency between posts.
For instance, the ‘many worlds’ argument you’ve presented DOES seem more plausible that collapse, but it certainly still seems mysterious. Having universes sprouting in all directions is bad enough, but something like ‘mangled worlds’ whereby there are arbitrary cutoffs that make a world disappear is even worse. It may be an improvement, but it sure doesn’t feel like the final word, even though it’s presented as such.
I think this in part gets to the heart of why the mistake was unspotted for so long. Because Bohr and Shrodinger and the rest said that collapse was what was going on, and people tend to take these things on face value. Who wants to be the first guy to publicly disagree with Bohr? We didn’t have 30 years of physicists forming bad judgments, we had a couple of early physicists with bad judgments and 30 years of people taking their word on face value because they didn’t understand the problem exactly themselves.
I can think of a few reasons why you would do this, although I’m not sure which one you had in mind.
Primarily, it’s to evaluate the extent to which we commenters accept what you say on face value, particularly when we’re not well informed to begin with. I don’t mean picking at the specifics of examples, but whether we’re evaluating what you’re saying for internal consistency between posts.
For instance, the ‘many worlds’ argument you’ve presented DOES seem more plausible that collapse, but it certainly still seems mysterious. Having universes sprouting in all directions is bad enough, but something like ‘mangled worlds’ whereby there are arbitrary cutoffs that make a world disappear is even worse. It may be an improvement, but it sure doesn’t feel like the final word, even though it’s presented as such.
I think this in part gets to the heart of why the mistake was unspotted for so long. Because Bohr and Shrodinger and the rest said that collapse was what was going on, and people tend to take these things on face value. Who wants to be the first guy to publicly disagree with Bohr? We didn’t have 30 years of physicists forming bad judgments, we had a couple of early physicists with bad judgments and 30 years of people taking their word on face value because they didn’t understand the problem exactly themselves.