On 8/8/2025 2:50 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
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/> So did you ask it how MWI deals with continuous splitting, as
in detecting the decay of radioactive atoms?
/
*NoI did not.However on November 17, 2024 I sent the following to this
list that was about Many Worlds and radioactive decay: *
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*Suppose an atom has a half-life of one second and I'm watching it,
the universe splits and so do I after one second. In one universe the
atom decays and I observed that the atom has decayed, in the other
universe the atom has not decayed and I observed that it has not
decayed. *
*
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*In the universe where the atom didn't decay after another second the
universe splits again, and again in one universe it decays but in the
other it has not, it survived for 2 full seconds. So there will be a
version of me that observes this atom, which has a one second
half-life, surviving for 3 seconds, and 4 seconds, and 5 years, and 6
centuries, and you name it. *
*And in fact for every value of t>0 in R. Another fanciful result of
MWI. And all just to avoid dealing with a definite result.
Bren**t*
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