On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM Russell Standish <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLQuipWGAneFFCu76CgAr4bVap1AZxwS-BvbZ%2BncMMx8Uw%40mail.gmail.com.
