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Re: “If there isn't a multiverse...”
There are two theories: Multiverse/"Many Worlds" and The Copenhagen Interpretation. Unfortunately, the two are identical in every discernable way, and we cannot produce an experiment that will distinguish the two because it would have to involve travel into the past, moving into another Multiverse by choosing a different path, capturing something that had changed, traveling back in time again, and returning to our universe with the change by taking the original path. But, of course, bringing that "change" to us would mean that our time traveler WASN'T in the original universe at all. He'd be in yet another Multiverse. So this isn't something we can test.

Multiverse and Copenhagen *both* explain the Quantum behaviors equally well. Interestingly, some elements of quantum theory fail mathematically. The failures have just been ignored by physicists since the theory works just the same. But significant changes to the theory are required.








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Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
By: Fiz
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Fri, 19 May 23 2:17 PM
Msg. 42663 of 58549

Reason #1: Many, many world class physicists have invested their careers exploring the mathematics of "String Theory". If there isn't a multiverse, their careers are a complete waste & their further promotion prospects are grim.

Reason#2: Many science fiction novels and movies depend on it; we must consider the invested hours of authors and readers.

And then there are some more sanguine reasons:

http://www.quantamagazine.org/are-there-reasons-to-believe-in-a-multiverse-20230517/

excerpt:
"(45:5Cool It is just reminding physicists [of] the scary part of doing physics, which is that it is a high-risk, high-reward game. And you could be going down a path which you think might be fruitful for many decades and discover that it’s a dead end. And you may not even know why it’s a dead end. So these are concepts in physics, which could have an impact on individuals deciding whether or not solving the cosmological constant problem — why is it so small — is compelling or not. But it hasn’t landed us on a solution. And just like the universe has certain limits, there’s an observable universe, and there’s a certain finite amount that can be discovered in the universe just because of the potentially finite lifetime, if it is. Similarly, all humans have finite life. And there may be a finite capacity to discover all of the laws of nature.

(46:57) I personally have not been completely sold on the multiverse as explanations for these things, but I think they are plausible...."


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