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The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett
- danbmil99 17y agokeep in mind, world lines merge too
- lisper 17y agoReally? How?
- cousin_it 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur-Vaidman_bomb-tester http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur-Vaidman_bomb-tester
- lisper 17y agoSorry, I don't see any world lines merging there. Can you elaborate?
- cousin_it 17y agoNo. On sober thought I can't even understand what it would mean for world lines to merge. Sorry.
- lisper 17y agoNo worries. It actually is possible in principle for world lines to merge because all quantum interactions are in principle reversible. But the odds are so small as to be effectively indistinguishable from zero.
- lisper 17y agohttp://rondam.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-shadow-photons-and-real-unicorns.html http://rondam.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-shadow-photons-and-rea...
- timcederman 17y agoHis son did a pretty great documentary on him, and happens to make some pretty fantastic music too.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoLink to a single page version: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hugh-everett-biography&print=true http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hugh-everet...
- rms 17y agoWhich annoyingly only works with the proper referrer.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoBother. Oh well, I tried. Sorry.
- jrandom 17y agoI've never like the Multiple Worlds interpretation -- each bifurcation splits the entire universe and there are a stupendous number of bifurcations every nanosecond, resulting in a ridiculous number of universes made of energy and matter (which is also energy). So... where does all that extra energy come from?