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I don’t know the science of this possibility, but you should check out the short story Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang. He writes directly abo
by freshbakedbread 4y ago
I don’t know the science of this possibility, but you should check out the short story Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang. He writes directly about a future where we have a tool to communicate between branches universes.
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoWhy should I check it out? Is it illuminating, or just a good story, or what?
- freshbakedbread 4y agoSorry I didn’t clarify. It is fiction, but I think it describes a plausible reaction of the general public (the layman of the comment I replied to) to this hypothesis if it was discovered to be true. Don’t want to spoil the good part of the story beyond that!
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoOk, and appreciated! Will dig it up, thanks.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y agoLiterally everything written by Ted Chiang is worth reading because he is a hell of a story teller.
- mr_mitm 4y agoThat's science fiction, though. The Everettian Many Worlds Interpretation is just that: An interpretation of a set of equations. And pretty much by definition the worlds cannot interact in any way. Even if there were some obscure way to differentiate between MWI and, say, the Copenhagen interpretation, I wouldn't expect it to become feasible anytime soon. But as far as I know there cannot be any experiments differentiating between the two (or other interpretations), because they're simply different interpretations of the same equations. They predict the same experimental outcomes.