Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Many Worlds Interpretation Naysayers

Regarding both the quantum and the David Lewis variants:

Aeon - Is the Many Worlds hypothesis just a fantasy?

I tend--just intuitively, but does anybody have more than wispy intuitions to go on here?--to shy away from the idea of universes (an infinitude of them?) spiraling out of every (possible?) measurement. (Though the idea provides for some interesting philosophical ponderings.) At the same time, I do think there are many, perhaps an infinitude, of other universes, some of them nearly (at least physically, if not in the details of their history) close by, in the sense suggested by (mem)brane theory.

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