Heaven, hell, and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics

[KrazyHorse]

Isn't this the plot of the movie Event Horizon?

[ricketyclik]

Or Next.

[Lorizael]

Isn't this the plot of the movie Event Horizon?

The plot of Event Horizon was "how much can we steal from 40k before GW sues us?"

[My Wife Hates CIV]

I don't buy this many worlds either. when does a split happen? why you wake up every moring? or everytime a cell in your body changes?

[The Mad Monk]

As an aside, it's the 100th anniversary of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.

[loinburger]

I don't buy this many worlds either. when does a split happen? why you wake up every moring? or everytime a cell in your body changes?

Every time you post a drunk thread another MWHC goes to hell

[My Wife Hates CIV]

Every time you post a drunk thread another MWHC goes to hell

hmmm... loinburger might have something here... oh well... the universe is ATRANGE special place... honestuyl how did caps happeb?!??

[Lorizael]

I don't buy this many worlds either. when does a split happen? why you wake up every moring? or everytime a cell in your body changes?

A "split" would happen every time a wavefunction collapsed because it bumped into something big, but modern MWI evangelists tend not to talk in terms of the universe splitting. What they will say (as I understand it) is that QM without any formalism already predicts that any quantum state exists in a very, very big space--a Hilbert space. The math of QM requires that you work in Hilbert space, and the consequences of superposition and entanglement--which are absolutely real--mean that this Hilbert space has a tremendously large number of dimensions--way, way more than the ~4 we normally think we live in.

So MWI does not postulate that extra worlds start branching off whenever a wavefunction collapses; it only postulates that when a quantum state becomes entangled with the environment, the superposition that describes that quantum state decoheres and no longer interferes with itself. So if a particle is in a superposition of spin up and spin down, rather than one of those states being randomly selected, the superposition just breaks down and the spin up and spin down states of a particle go on their merry way. They each evolve according to the Schrodinger equation, but they do so in distinct portions of the Hilbert space, which is so gigantically large that they're not going to run into each other any more. Voila, you now have "many worlds."

Btw, I don't necessarily believe the above, mostly because I don't know enough to judge. Also, I expect JM and KH will tell me how wrong I am, except this is new-nu-new Poly and that doesn't really happen anymore.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

it's a fraudulent theory. no one has every had the detail needed to be even near anything close to factual. and always just a blurred replied to every disagreement about multiverse,

[Lorizael]

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/203475-What-happens-if-you-go-to-hell-in-one-timeline-and-heaven-in-another

[loinburger]

I think I started that thread after watching Back to the Future, with Biff's soul in mind

[Sava]

whenever i see mwhc post, i roll some dice

in some of those universes, i hope that i roll a different number and that he has a brain aneurysm

that gives me comfort


even if the number is the same, i would settle for that

[My Wife Hates CIV]

i see mr crap was here... explains the fly.

[Sava]

big deal

i'll make it rain that **** on you

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[My Wife Hates CIV]