On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 12:00:40PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > > > The results at each magnet orientation are equivalent, not because of > some > > 'principle of indifference", but because the number of UP/DOWN results > that > > make up each sequence is the same for all orientations. The equivalence > is a > > matter of the way in which the set of sequences is constructed, not a > matter of > > some arbitrary assumptions about probabilities. > > > > They are not equivalent, because the worlds depends not only on the > system (the electrons), but also on the measuring apparatus and the > environment. For ideal systems like this, we can probably ignore the > environment though. Since the magnets have different orientations, the > worlds are different, and correspond to different sets of branches in > each world. > It is hard to envisage a more irrelevant comment. Bruce -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLQuipWGAneFFCu76CgAr4bVap1AZxwS-BvbZ%2BncMMx8Uw%40mail.gmail.com.
