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Parallel Realities

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Date	2016-10-27 18:31 -0700
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Subject	Parallel Realities
From	Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com>

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The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). In layman's terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite[2]—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes. The theory is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, or just many-worlds.

The original relative state formulation is due to Hugh Everett in 1957.[3][4] Later, this formulation was popularized and renamed many-worlds by Bryce Seligman DeWitt in the 1960s and 1970s.[1][5][6][7] The decoherence approaches to interpreting quantum theory have been further explored and developed,[8][9][10] becoming quite popular. MWI is one of many multiverse hypotheses in physics and philosophy. It is currently considered a mainstream interpretation along with the other decoherence interpretations, collapse theories (including the historical Copenhagen interpretation),[11] and hidden variable theories such as the Bohmian mechanics.

Before many-worlds, reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history. Many-worlds, however, views reality as a many-branched tree, wherein every possible quantum outcome is realised.[12] Many-worlds reconciles the observation of non-deterministic events, such as random radioactive decay, with the fully deterministic equations of quantum physics.

MORE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

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Parallel Realities Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 18:31 -0700
  Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-27 21:35 -0700
    Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 22:39 -0700
    Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-28 10:27 -0700
    Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-10-29 17:52 -0400
      Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-29 20:53 -0700
      Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-29 21:14 -0700
        Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 22:26 -0700
          Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 23:56 -0700
          Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 00:02 -0700
  Re: The HBO series "WestWorld". Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 18:09 -0700
    Re: My playList for reading/writing/programming. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 22:44 -0700
      Life is a movie running at around 60 frames per second Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 03:07 -0800
        Re: Life is a movie running at around 60 frames per second Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2016-11-06 11:17 +0000
        TOE - Theory of Everything Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 03:26 -0800
          Re: If life were a movie, we'd all shit gold and piss milk. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 04:53 -0800
            Re: Takuya Saitoh is _tired_ of living. Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:30 -0800
              Re: How poor are you ? Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 21:34 -0800
                The Noosphere is real! Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 00:13 -0800
  In Moi's reality, Taka is a fruitcake. That is all that anybody needs to know John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-11-01 05:03 -0700
  Re: Parallel Realities Takuya Saitoh <taka0038@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 08:13 -0800
    Re: Parallel Realities Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2016-11-06 17:21 +0100
    Re: Parallel Realities John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 14:53 -0800

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