Vic Stenger on Many World's Interpretation of QM

[Alan Grayson]

He said he didn't like a theory where every time a prairie dog popped his head out of his burrow and looked around for predators, multiple worlds were created. And there are millions of prairie dogs doing this every day, and possibly at night as well. Now I know your "rebuttal"; that what humans consider reasonable should not be a criterion for how nature behaves, as evidenced by Relativity. BUT, there's a HUGE difference here between MW and Relativity. The former is unverifiable and untestable, unlike Relativity. So when will you, JC, start doing real science, instead of indulging in imaginary fantasies? AG

[John Clark]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote:

He said he didn't like a theory where every time a prairie dog popped his head out of his burrow and looked around for predators, multiple worlds were created.

The universe cares what Vic Stenger likes or doesn't like about as much as it cares about what the opinion of a prairie dog is.  All the universe wants is to keep on doing what it does, which is to follow Schrödinger's Equation. And that's all Many Worlds is saying.

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[Alan Grayson]

On Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 1:37:33 PM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:

On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote:

He said he didn't like a theory where every time a prairie dog popped his head out of his burrow and looked around for predators, multiple worlds were created.

The universe cares what Vic Stenger likes or doesn't like about as much as it cares about what the opinion of a prairie dog is.  All the universe wants is to keep on doing what it does, which is to follow Schrödinger's Equation. And that's all Many Worlds is saying.

You REFUSE to get it! It's not verifiable and not testable, so it's just your fantasy (and Everett's) about how the universe functions. Not a scientific theory! AG

[Alan Grayson]

It totally fails perhaps the most important test -- the smell test. LOL. AG 

[Alan Grayson]

What's really amazing and inexplicable about this situation, is that so many ostensibly brilliant scientists like Sean Carroll, Max Tegmark, and others embrace this crap. But considering that almost half of the American population will likely vote for Trump, maybe if we analyze their adoration of this asshole, we'll have a window into why scientists who should know better, love MW. AGs

 

[Alan Grayson]

The core error of MW is easily identified. It is the affirmation that anything that can happen, anything that is possible to happen, must happen. Is there any proof or argument for this affirmation? If so, please present it. AG

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