What does the "Many Worlds Interpretation" really mean?
Posted by DFM on November 24, 2024, 7:52 pm
Edited by board administrator November 25, 2024, 3:16 pm
It is NOT that, with each measurement, reality splits into many realities. Instead, it means that reality is ALREADY an ensemble of states each of which is a superposition of many wave functions, and it is impossible to determine which state the system is in due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A measurement simply selects which one of these possible superpositions states was actually true IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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