RE: The weirdness of the Many Worlds Interpretation (correction)

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 14:02:57 MDT

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    Sorry, instead of

    > "[This refers to a scientist in each state trying to do experiments to test
    > out the predicted probabilities of his QM manyworld. with a state
    > vector that has 2 components with coefficients at psi1*psi1 = 0.9 and the
    > second at psi2*psi2 = 0.1. After three experiments, there would be 11 of the
    > 16 branches in which the scientist(s) would be saying there is less than a
    > 0.05 chance that this quantum mechanics is correct. With time, the percent
    > of universes in which the scientist(s) could still vouch for his(their) QM
    > would approach zero. The chance that we could live in a universe that
    > accepts QM is zero.]"
    >
    > I do not see how the numbers come about. After three
    > experiments, one should have by the Bernoulli distribution:
    >
    > 1 3 3 1
    > .9^3 .9^2 .9 1
    > 1 .1 .1^2 .1^3
    >
    > with products respectively
    >
    > .729 .3(.81) .03(.9) .001
    > or
    > .729 .243 .027 .001
    >

    I should have realized that UpUpDown cannot be lumped in with
    UpDownUp (as they go into different worlds. The correct
    distribution---it seems to me---would be more like

          .9^3 .9^2*.1 .9*.01 .001

    (with three more rows) which does yield 16ths.

    Lee



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