{"id":893,"date":"2014-06-30T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/?p=893"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:08:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:08:28","slug":"many-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2014\/06\/30\/many-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Many worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to link to Sean Carroll&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/why-the-many-worlds-formulation-of-quantum-mechanics-is-probably-correct\/\">defending the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics<\/a>. Sean has a habit of getting this sort of thing right.<\/p>\n<p>He explains that the multiple worlds are not an add-on to the theory but instead are simply what happens naturally when you take the equations of the theory at face value. The standard (&#8220;Copenhagen&#8221;) interpretation is the one that needs to postulate an <em>ad hoc<\/em> extra rule. We should simply rename things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics&#8221; should henceforth be known as &#8220;quantum mechanics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The Copenhagen interpretation should henceforth be known as &#8220;the disappearing-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to link to Sean Carroll&#8217;s post defending the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Sean has a habit of getting this sort of thing right. He explains that the multiple worlds are not an add-on to the theory but instead are simply what happens naturally when you take the equations of the theory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2014\/06\/30\/many-worlds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Many worlds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}