On Sun, Jan 05, 2025 at 04:47:00PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > > What he fails to explain is how probabilities are realized in these worlds. > As > Bruce pointed out, except for 50-50 cases the overwhelming number of worlds > find QM to be empirically falsified; so branch counting doesn't work. It > appears that the Born rule adds another axiom; it's not just the Schroedinger > equation. > > Brent >
Bruce's argument is too coarse. He is assuming that all worlds have equal representation in the original experimental preparation, whereas the preparation process can clearly set things up such that there is 90% up 10% down in the original sample, after which measurement is performed. "Branch counting" can easily explain something like the 90/10 Stern Gerlach case. Where things fail is explaining something like the violation of Bell's inequality. I originally thought I had an answer to that, but after surface from the rabbit hole of maths, I realised I had to think again :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/Z3srmt2kv1bEB4mz%40zen.
