Born to do Math 61 – Many Worlds, JFK
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Born To Do Math
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/05/15
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Rick Rosner: But you want to talk about the Many Worlds in that way, that is not just acceptable, that is pretty much undeniable but when I talk about Many Worlds like some thing across an abstract space like the set of all worlds in which you’re able to see JFK assassinated. Those things may have some mathematical legitimacy. In that, you might be able to itch some quantum wave signature that could have another world and another time in a quantum wave that describes a universe like ours, but JFK didn’t get assassinated. But whether that means that that world has a kind of existence, you could probably argue it either way.
And probably it doesn’t matter, except as something that is fun to think about and is a convenient framing device. And it is something that you can also do physics without. You can’t do quantum physics without quantum indeterminacy, without addressing big systems where there is not enough information to assign one definite state to some aspects of that system.
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