This is especially problematic because QM doesn't predict any particular decomposition of a quantum state into particular classical states. That is, the Schrodinger equation doesn't actually predict that a particle has some amplitude here and some other amplitude there, as is often presented; instead, it predicts that it is described by some vector which can be decomposed in many different ways. You can say it has some amplitude X here and some amplitude Y there, but with any 2 points in space-time (adjusting the amplitudes). Or, it can have some combination of position and spin with amplitude X, and some other combination of position and spin with amplitude Y. You can choose any basis you like for the measurement, and you will get the corresponding answer.
But, for MWI to actually predict experimental results (and the classical world we live in) you not only have to choose to look at a single element of that basis, but you also have to believe that the classical basis is somehow preferred.
It does predict it, this decomposition is called decoherence, where a classical state splits into a superposition of several different classical states.
No, that's not what decoherence is. Decoherence is the spread of entanglement over a very large number of untrackable degrees of freedom (usually referred to as the "environment"). This makes interference effects unobservable. But decoherence itself does not involve any "splitting"; the entanglement that decoherence spreads over a very large number of untrackable degrees of freedom has to already be there before decoherence can act on it.
And yes, spread of entanglement does mean splitting. Entangled state is not factorizable, because all states in it are split. This splitting is the result of splitting of the initial state.
No. The 100 atoms is the largest molecule that we can do experiments on without having decoherence happen and ruining our attempts to observe interference.
The number of degrees of freedom in the environment is many orders of magnitude larger, something like 10^30 or more for a typical experiment.
>The many-worlds interpretation implies that there are most likely an uncountably infinite number of universes.
The MWI says that there is one single universal wave function, which evolves in time by unitary evolution forever. That is one universe, not an infinity of them. It is just one universe that is nothing like what we think we perceive.
Wanna join? You can be number 2 thus have second dibs at the buffet.
What conditions are these?
Getting to that point can take several years. A quicker option seem to be drugs, based on conversations I had with friends, but I never wanted to artificially taint my perception, so I did it the hard way. My findings are that while there is no fate, there exist enough aspects in universes similar enough to yours, but perhaps chronically shifted, that you can learn from their mistakes. This is known as instinct, "guardian angels", premonition, deja-vue, etc. Good luck.
If you could travel between these many earths, you could even end up in one - let's call this mythical land "Australia" - where South was up!
Sounds a bit crazy but some people believe it could really exist.
The collapse amounts to just setting some terms to zero.
Title article is literally about trying to test those theories experimentally.
Here's the best poem ever written, or that will ever be written:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
MWI stinks
And so do you.
I hereby accept my position as God Poet of the Universe.
Because we live in the macro world, it feels like a single unitary reality is simpler, but actually, the MWI makes fewer assumptions. So I would turn that around and put the burden on the other theories to show that collapse is real, the default position should be MWI.