The origin of the Everettian heresy

Osnaghi, S.; Freitas, Fábio; Freire, Olival

doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.10.002

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“…We will return to this idea below. In contrast, see Osnaghi et al (2009) for a close historical reading of Everett's relative-state formulation as a challenge to the Copenhagen orthodoxy. theory.…”

Section: Pure Wave Mechanics and The Language Of Relative Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Everett’s pure wave mechanics and the notion of worlds

Barrett

2011

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

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Everett (1957aEverett ( , b, 1973 relative-state formulation of quantum mechanics has often been taken to involve a metaphysical commitment to the existence of many splitting worlds each containing physical copies of observers and the objects they observe. While there was earlier talk of splitting worlds in connection with Everett, this is largely due to DeWitt's (Phys Today 23:30-35, 1970) popular presentation of the theory. While the thought of splitting worlds or parallel universes has captured the popular imagination, Everett himself favored the language of elements, branches, or relative states in describing his theory. The result is that there is no mention of splitting worlds or parallel universes in any of Everett's published work. Everett, however, did write of splitting observers and was willing to adopt the language of many worlds in conversation with people who were themselves using such language. While there is evidence that Everett was not entirely comfortable with talk of many worlds, it does not seem to have mattered much to him what language one used to describe pure wave mechanics. This was in part a result of Everett's empirical understanding of the cognitive status of his theory.

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Section: Pure Wave Mechanics and The Language Of Relative Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Everett’s pure wave mechanics and the notion of worlds

Barrett

2011

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

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“…The hypothesis states there is a very large-perhaps infinite [1]-number of universes. In Dublin in 1952…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Multiverse and the Time State

Alnobani¹

2017

JEPE

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This article is not inspired by any religion or quantum many-worlds interpretation. The mathematics of multiverse is presented here. The mass operator was introduced earlier by Alnobani. This operator is used here to deduce the time state. It is found that time has four states and those four states are orthogonal. Time is the constitution of any verse. Time has direction. Every orthogonal direction of time belongs to a verse. Past and future belong to opposite directions of time and they are arbitrary. Other verses are there by their own and not a probabilities of any other verse and if any similarity it is only a coincidence. Among applications of this thesis is travelling through groups of galaxies, or more or less.

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“…capable of unambiguously accounting for the current observations in its domain of applicability, as well as making novel testable predictions. 1 Such unobservable theoretical entities (UTEs) can be broadly divided into four categories. The first consists of those that, though unobservable at a certain epoch, later become observable.…”

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The Infinite Turn and Speculative Explanations in Cosmology

Tavakol

Gironi

2016

Found Sci

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Infinity, in various guises, has been invoked recently in order to 'explain' a number of important questions regarding observable phenomena in science, and in particular in cosmology. Such explanations are by their nature speculative. Here we introduce the notions of relative infinity, closure, and economy of explanation and ask: to what extent explanations involving relative or real constructed infinities can be treated as reasonable?

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The origin of the Everettian heresy

Cited by 56 publications

References 50 publications

Everett’s pure wave mechanics and the notion of worlds

Everett’s pure wave mechanics and the notion of worlds

Multiverse and the Time State

The Infinite Turn and Speculative Explanations in Cosmology

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