On Sep 15, 2:24 pm, "Neil B." <neil_del...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> My subtle quantum psi powers* tell me that the LHC did indeed "destroy
> the world" last week, but it doesn't matter anyway ...!? "The" world
> didn't get destroyed because there are so many of them according to the
> Everett-DeWitt "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics. In the MW
> theory, each instance of random possibility branches into entire new
> universes expressing every option. (Like, whether Schr=F6dinger's cat
die=
s
> or not at any given moment. BTW don't let decoherence sophists take the
> mystery away.)
FINALLY! Someone in these newsgroups with a decent understanding of
modern physics! That's exactly it. All possible events have to be
considered including the ones in "alternative" universes. The world
ended yesterday, today, tomorrow, next year, it didn't end at all, it
never ends, it's all just probability. Real events never happen
anymore. What we do is sit around "adding arrows" [for those who
really don't wish to bring up names with unpleasant connotations like
"imaginary numbers"] So the world is clearly BOTH destroyed and not
destroyed at the same time! But of course the Pauli principle says
these two worlds can't both exist in the same space. But the modern
physics solution is SO SIMPLE! It's called "DoubleThink". Just so long
as you never let mutually exclusive ideas touch each other, both can
exist and you can truly believe in both of them at the same time! One
day soon everybody will be thinking like this. It's the future.
Ignorance is Strength!
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