On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *the correctness of MWI is what is in question, so you're begging the > question by assuming it's true. * > *No. I do not claim I can prove that MWI is correct, but I can prove that your claim that MWI produces contradictory predictions is wrong, and to do that I need to start by assuming that MWI is correct and seeing if that assumption produces any contradictions. It doesn't. I admit that doesn't prove MWI is correct, but it doesn't prove MWI is incorrect either.* > *> which is based on successive measures of the same variable. The second > measurement has only one possible outcome contrary to you assertion that > all values consistent with Schroedinger's equation must obtain* > *It's true that if a unmeasured photon hits a polarizer set to the randomly selected angle X Schrodinger's equation says there is a 50% chance it will make it through the polarizer, and if it does and then it hits a second polarizer set to angle X plus 90° there is a 0% chance the photon will make it through that filter. It's also true that if you remove the first polariser but leave the second one unchanged and then repeat the experiment Schrodinger's equation predicts the photon will now have a 50% chance of making it through that polarizer set to angle X plus 90°, not a 0% chance as in the first time the experiment was done. But I'll be damned if I can figure out why that fact is supposed to prove that the MWI must be wrong.* > *You seem to have missed the point of the argument* *Well, I've certainly missed the point of your argument. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* mpa -- 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/CAJPayv05a61PQyDCX2PfvQ_GGnE0%2BWBuTK_%3DCkgvRwrsU8o3pQ%40mail.gmail.com.
