Many-Worlds Interpretation
Discussions revolve around the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, debating its validity against Copenhagen interpretation, wavefunction collapse, and related quantum theories.
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There are compelling arguments to believe in the many-worlds interpretation.No sign of a Heisenberg cut has been observed so far, even as experiments involving entanglement of larger and larger molecules are performed, which makes objective-collapse theories hard to consider seriously.Bohmian theories are nice, but require awkward adjustments to reconcile them with relativity. But more importantly, they are philosophically uneconomical, requiring many unobservable — even theoretically — en
That sentence is not talking about MWI, it's talking about wavefunction collapse interpretations.
What's wrong with many worlds?
Is that an issue for the many-worlds interpretation?
Another: Many World's Interpretation of QM. Not known to be true but less ridiculed and more widely subscribed.
Bell's inequality refutes the many-worlds interpretation? Where is it written?
Many-worlds isn't really a silly concept. It's one of several interpretations that are equally consistent with current experimental results, and it does have nice properties such as avoiding nondeterminism and nonlocality. It's also (in a way) a conceptually simpler theory, in that many-worlds is roughly what you'd have if you got rid of wave function collapse and naively applied the rest of quantum mechanics. If memory serves me, a substantial percentage of physicists consider many-worlds to be
Yes, that's basically the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, and a perfectly valid way to interpret the math.The Many Worlds interpretation doesn't have the collapse, it says that all the possibilities happen.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation> In contrast to some other interpretations, such as the Copenhagen interp
There is no wavefunction collapse in many-worlds.
The many-worlds interpretation is arguably simpler than the Copenhagen interpretation because it gets rid of the collapse postulate. And depending on how literally you take the Copenhagen interpretation, it may not even be self-consistent. At best it provides no explanation how the apparent collapse of the wave function happens, at worst it suggests that the world evolves according to two fundamentally incompatible laws, unitary time evolution and probabilistic projection onto eigenstates during