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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by baddox on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:37PM (#22563587)
My understanding was that many-worlds could be tested experimentally if we were able to set up large objects in superpositions, and I thought that there is no reason to expect that it isn’t physically possible to do so (we just don’t know how at the moment).
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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by akvadrako on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:59AM (#22565551)
You can’t get any information from that because the main interpretations all make the same predictions from an outside perspective, which is what you’ll expect to see.

Besides to put a person in a superposition may require a machine as large as the universe, so you get issues with the speed of light.

The only way to test MWI is multiverse immortality - many worlds means you should expect to always have some future experience - there is no real death.

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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by GoblinSlayer on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:07AM (#22566041)
Some version of you will expect it, some versions won't.
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Re:Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis ... by GoblinSlayer on Friday March 13, 2020 @06:03AM (#22566023)
>set up large objects in superpositions

EPR experiment does exactly that. In fact, it's a good experiment to get intuitive understanding of MWI.

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