Exactly and in the end I think there is something ridiculous about an entirely new universe being created every single time anything happens.
Then again what the heck do I know?
isn’t Everett’s description a description of M-theory?
I think all of this indicates that we have a lot to learn about quantum physics.
Those is are some portions of theoretical physics that ought to be recognized as more in the area of philosophy than science.
As they so extremely seldom have any practical application to life or living, it is totally fine that most folks either know nothing of them or ignore them.
if “God” is the “observer” of the “universe”.....doesn’t that sort of contain the universe, as it were, in sort of a closed system?
I get the idea of goose/gander (what applies to micro must apply to macro). But if there is an Ideal Observer big enough to observe the whole thing....because He created it...then it would seem that His “observations” are the only ones that matter.....
Berkeley said this a long time ago. (I’ve always found Berkeley not only correct, but sort of unremarkable......)
Yawn. Theology masquerading as science.
“...but Bohr’s personal charisma and the desire on the part of scientists to get on with the fun of understanding atoms and particles quickly established Copenhagen as the only way for right-thinking physicists to understand quantum theory.”
I know nothing about quantum mechanics but I do know once scientist all agree on one thing being right and any other opinion is wrong...they stopped being scientist and have become priest.
In the Unfortunate Feline experiment, a cat is threatened with loss of its 9th life. Dumb experiment, and I don’t accept the conclusion that the “cat is neither alive nor dead until you open the box.” Sorry. They failed with that one.
Other than that, I couldn’t care less if particles at the subatomic level don’t act in a deterministic way.
I wonder sometimes if Rick Sanchez from the hit cartoon 'Rick and Morty' is based on Hugh Everett . Hugh was so clueless that when his son committed suicide he said he had no idea his son was so sad.
Theories are just that. Theories. They are not facts. They are not proven. As Einstein said, reality is just a perception but a persistent one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Myriad_Ways
The title story can be read as a response to stories featuring the many-worlds interpretation as a key plot point, by taking the social implications of infinite realities to a depressing conclusion. A police detective, pondering a rash of unexplained suicides and murder-suicides occurring since the discovery of travel to parallel universes, begins to realize that if all possible choices that might be made actually are made in parallel universes, people will see their freedom of choice as meaningless. The choice not to commit suicide, or not to commit a crime, seems meaningless if one knows that in some other universe, the choice went the other way. They therefore kill themselves or commit the crime, because they abandon the sense of choice.
The absolute termination of any relationship between philosophy and science.
*ping*
“Consciousness, in particular, has nothing to do with it. The ‘observer’ could be an earthworm, a microscope or a rock. There’s not even anything special about macroscopic systems, other than the fact that they can’t help but interact and become entangled with the environment. The price we pay for such a powerful and simple unification of quantum dynamics is a large number of separate worlds.”
Because physics (and even others areas of science) has so far failed to present a viable theory of consciousness, I think this assertion is merely an assumption that has not been supported objectively.
Don Hoffman is a physicist who has put forward a couple of strong theories (and proven theorems) that have so far been supported and not been falsified which support that the construct of space-time, including all of its physical laws, are themselves derived from consciousness. That is, what we observe is not objective reality but merely our interface to it.