On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*> John K Clark is just obfuscating. Paraphrase the same thought as "If a > variable A is measured in..."* *What a variable is measured in is not relevant, who is doing the measuring is. And in the context of a Many Worlds discussion "Brent Meeker will measure A" is NOT a paraphrase of "you will measure A" because the first statement makes sense but the second statement is gibberish.* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* itc > > On 5/10/2025 5:01 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > *>>> Are there multiple worlds with zero probabilities?* >>> >>> >> >> *>> I can't answer that question until you answer a question of my own. >>> Zero probability of what? * >> >> Obviously a zero probablity of having measured a value Ai =/= Ao. > > *And if your answer is "of being observed" then my next question is "being >>> observed by who?"* >> >> > > > No >> > > *No? Neither of the two questions can be answered by a simple yes or no. * > > *> if you measure a variable A in a world it was just measure to have the >> eigenvalue Ao, then MWI says you are in a world with A=Ao with probability >> 1.0 Yet you wrote that "Many Worlds says it was in every state that is not >> forbidden by Schrodinger's Equation." The system is not forbidden by >> Schrodinger's equation to be in other states Ai; it is a contingent fact >> that it happened, in this world, to land in state Ao the first time it was >> measured. So it has probability zero of being a world where A=Ai. * >> > > *The source of the massive confusion as seen in the above lies, as always, > with the misuse of the personal pronoun "you", * > > > John K Clark is just obfuscating. Paraphrase the same thought as "If a > variable A is measured in..." > > Brent > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0vCwq7%3Dy-_YU2vbaFoRSZg0G6A4MneD%2B%3DuejNKW1mfPA%40mail.gmail.com.
