re: Many Worlds

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:10:01 +0000


At 09:38 AM 1/16/98 +1000, Mitch wrote:

>I'd like to know what it means for one universe to "interfere with"
>another.

Ah. I believe Deutsch's ontological answer to this invokes what he calls
`shadow light', a kind of explicit leakage between adjacent universes (not
to be confused, I gather, with Bohmian pilot waves or Cramer offer waves).
I say `ontological' because obviously to date everyone uses the same
equations and calculations in solving QT problems, irrespective of how they
suppose these formalisms cash out in ontic terms.

Damien Broderick