Re:Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003)
by naasking on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:09AM
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> After skimming the whole thing, I was relieved to see that the argument against Many Worlds was the only one I considered invalid.
You should consider the Bohmian criticisms invalid as well then. Many have argued that de Broglie-Bohm is "many worlds in disguise", so if the criticisms the author levels against Bohmian mechanics are true, then they apply to MWI, but if they don't apply to MWI, then they don't apply to Bohmian mechanics either.
Not because they are the same theory, because they are not ontologically the same, but the formalisms are interchangeable.
Re:Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003)
by ajkjk on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:08PM
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Oh yeah. Probably, yeah. I glossed over that one because its criticisms were strangely technical for a theory that, iirc, just rephrases regular quantum theory.
Re:Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (2003)
by whatshisface on Friday March 02, 2018 @09:16PM
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Valid and true are two very different things - and we've seen from history that the human brain can be lead into believing that essentially anything is intuitive or aesthetic.
Well, of course, no one's saying it's testable necessarily, but for various aesthetic and intuitive reasons it still seems valid. Just don't expect predictions from it and you'll be fine.