Re:Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics
by paulddraper on Sunday September 08, 2019 @01:21PM
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The waveform is deterministic. It does not "collapse" to a randomly chosen value; it continues to be all the values in perptuity.
It's like matrix multiplication: yes you can wind up with more elements after the operation, but the result as a whole is entirely deterministic.
If you defined matrix multiple multiplication where you collapsed the result down to a single unspecified vector, then you would have "randomness" (according to the selection).
Many worlds says "don't choose"; keep the entire matrix, and the results will get larger and larger.
The universe is not fundamentally rolling dice, though it appears that way from your perspective since you can only see a single slice of the matrix.
It's like matrix multiplication: yes you can wind up with more elements after the operation, but the result as a whole is entirely deterministic.
If you defined matrix multiple multiplication where you collapsed the result down to a single unspecified vector, then you would have "randomness" (according to the selection).
Many worlds says "don't choose"; keep the entire matrix, and the results will get larger and larger.
The universe is not fundamentally rolling dice, though it appears that way from your perspective since you can only see a single slice of the matrix.