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a) Nobody said "unforeseeable". Macroscopic superpositions are entirely foreseeable, we just don't have the technology to keep them in a coherent state. b) The
by david_ar 11y ago
a) Nobody said "unforeseeable". Macroscopic superpositions are entirely foreseeable, we just don't have the technology to keep them in a coherent state.
b) The link only says that some people have argued that position. I think all they're saying is that "wavefunction collapse caused by some arbitrary division between microscopic and macroscopic objects" is a stronger claim than MWI
- lucozade 11y ago> Nobody said "unforeseeable" OK. The actual quote from the linked reference was "These proposals are all for gedanken experiments that cannot be performed with current or any foreseeable future technology". So I took a little license in quoting. I should ha quoted it more correctly, you're quite right.
- david_ar 11y agoThat sentence is not talking about MWI, it's talking about wavefunction collapse interpretations.