On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
* > In fact infinitely many* [wavefunction branches] *have already been * > preemptorily* ruled out because they don't satisfy Schroedinger's > equation. * > *Schrodinger's Equation describes a quantum wave function and it says absolutely nothing about that wave terminating, therefore if anything a finite number of branches have been ruled out. However, if I'm being fair I have to admit that Schrodinger's Equation can't be the entire story because it makes no mention whatsoever of gravity, and it is probably the most fundamental of all of the 4 known forces because it is the only one that affects spacetime itself. The equation doesn't say gravity can't exist, and it doesn't say gravity must exist either, instead it simply ignores gravity entirely. That's why Many Worlds proponents don't claim to know if there are infinitely many branches or just an astronomical number to an astronomical power of them. * *So if Schrodinger is incomplete why do I think those other worlds are real? Because we know from experiments that things get weird when things become very small and Many Worlds can explain that weirdness. And when things get that small gravitational effects become negligible, or at least they do until they come close to the Planck level, and that is well outside our experimental range so nobody knows what's going on there. * *As for Bruno's ideas I had two basic problems with them. He believed mathematics was more fundamental than physics while I thought the opposite, and I thought his ideas concerning consciousness were worthless. * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 7f04b3 > -- 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/CAJPayv1C6LdCFCrJF5nHEnqLOam-ugPuVZSQYmDmBtiX%3DvSeig%40mail.gmail.com.
