But MWI doesn’t really create worlds in any useful sense. New worlds are formed from smaller and smaller slices of the total amplitude of the wave function.
Took me a while to get back to you on this. I apologize for the delay.
This, however (there being a ’total amplitude of the wave function) is the violation of the Conservation of Energy. For that to operate there would have to be a non-zero energy to be so divisible. And that just doesn’t mesh with what I know of the origins of our universe, its current energy state, nor the remainder of physics.
Students of nature have a long and troubled history of inventing new media or substances for the purpose of enabling their conceptions to be viable. Phlogiston. Luminiferous aether. And now ‘the total amplitude of the wave function’. Until such time as there is a material reason to accept that concept under the standard falsificationist definitions of evidence—I have no choice as a skeptic but to reject the notion.
Because it’s been a long while, I will remind you that not all rejections of MWI are created equal. My rejection of MWI is not and should never be considered an endorsement of the Copenhagen Interpretation. As I said previously, I do not believe there is any need whatsoever for any interpretation to occur. The mathematics of quantum mechanics as we have discerned them through experimental processes are elegant enough as is; there’s no need to dress them up for Sunday, as it were.
This, however (there being a ’total amplitude of the wave function) is the violation of the Conservation of Energy. For that to operate there would have to be a non-zero energy to be so divisible. And that just doesn’t mesh with what I know of the origins of our universe, its current energy state, nor the remainder of physics.
Took me a while to get back to you on this. I apologize for the delay.
This, however (there being a ’total amplitude of the wave function) is the violation of the Conservation of Energy. For that to operate there would have to be a non-zero energy to be so divisible. And that just doesn’t mesh with what I know of the origins of our universe, its current energy state, nor the remainder of physics.
Students of nature have a long and troubled history of inventing new media or substances for the purpose of enabling their conceptions to be viable. Phlogiston. Luminiferous aether. And now ‘the total amplitude of the wave function’. Until such time as there is a material reason to accept that concept under the standard falsificationist definitions of evidence—I have no choice as a skeptic but to reject the notion.
Because it’s been a long while, I will remind you that not all rejections of MWI are created equal. My rejection of MWI is not and should never be considered an endorsement of the Copenhagen Interpretation. As I said previously, I do not believe there is any need whatsoever for any interpretation to occur. The mathematics of quantum mechanics as we have discerned them through experimental processes are elegant enough as is; there’s no need to dress them up for Sunday, as it were.
I’m not sure I understand this. Can you expand?