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Unless I'm missing it, his argument about why MWI is untenable in terms of physics is: - If the universe splits with each measurement (or interaction), then ev
by rladd 8y ago
Unless I'm missing it, his argument about why MWI is untenable in terms of physics is:
- If the universe splits with each measurement (or interaction), then every possible outcome does occur
- Therefore nothing could be predicted based on probabilities, and that proves MWI is wrong
This seems to have a few logical errors:
Just because everything that can happen does, in MWI, happen in at least one universe, that doesn't mean that the probability of each outcome is identical.
Probabilities still apply: higher probability outcomes mean that one is more likely to find one's self in a universe in which that outcome takes place.
In this way of describing things, it's still a very low (but non-zero!) probability that all the air in your room will move to the corner, leaving you to suffocate in a vacuum. But the way we state it would be, "it's a very low probability that you will find yourself in one of the universes in which this happens".