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To: ETL

Those are not the only schools. There is a modified Copenhagen Interpetation which does not require consciousness or even observers, and there is quantum coherence and decoherence as well. There is also a modified version of Many Worlds which does not regard the uncountable trajectories of the Feynman Path Integral as literal configurations in an infinite number of universes. Most physicists these days are more likely to belong in the last two categories, and not to take the literalism of the original Copenhagen School very seriously. I’m not in the life any more, but at the time I left academia (and physics) in the late 1980’s I did not know any practitioners — even among theorists — who took the infinite number of universes interpretation all that seriously. Feynman himself did not.


74 posted on 01/18/2014 12:52:12 AM PST by FredZarguna (Das is nicht richtig nur falsch. Das ist nicht einmal falsch.)
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To: FredZarguna
in the late 1980’s I did not know any practitioners — even among theorists — who took the infinite number of universes interpretation all that seriously. Feynman himself did not.

Technically, it wouldn't really be an "infinite" number of universes, would it, as Many Worlds merely states that anything that CAN happen, happens, in a new and unique universe. The number of possibilities for ways something can happen isn't infinite. Is this correct? In any case, it seems that whatever the interpretation or explanation of quantum mechanics is, it's incredibly bizarre and foreign.

And thanks for your firsthand insight.

79 posted on 01/18/2014 3:42:38 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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