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