Re: Diatribe against parallel universe stories

On Sat, 24 May 2008 15:20:38 +0000 (UTC), Dan Blum <tool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Still, if the universe is splitting on
every event, I don't see how it doesn't split on every particle movement,
change,
or interaction.

It _does_. But then you sum over them to get what's observed, and a lot of
the fluff cancels out in the summation. If all you're detecting is the
momentum of particles A through J, then you sum over all the rest of the
particles near the experiment (or far away, actually)... Feynman did this
better than any of us.

there should be far, far too many to have
any chance of finding interesting ones.

There are - but they merge back together constantly also. "Particle A emits
photon at time T, absorbed by particle B at time T+2" merges into "Particle A
emits same photon at time T+.01, absorbed by particle B at time T+2.01", if
nobody observes either one or the photon until time T+7.

Dave
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