I guess I’ve always been confused by the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics and the fact that it’s taken seriously. Like is there any proof at all that universes outside of our own exist?

I admit that I might be dumb, but, how does one look at atoms and say “My God! There must be many worlds than just our one?”

I just never understood how Many Worlds Interpretation was valid, with my, admittedly limited understanding, it just seemed to be a wild guess no more strange than a lot things we consider too outlandish to humor.

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    19 days ago

    The MWI/Everett interpetation is the simplest interpretation of quantum mechanics—other interpretations have to add additional assumptions to prevent it from happening.

    How is the existence of an infinite amount of other worlds a “simple interpretation”, that seems like a literal infinite amount of assumptions

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Put it this way: is the idea that the stars in the sky are dots on the inside of massive solid sphere more simple then the idea that they’re all just other suns very away? The simpleness of a theory isn’t determined by how many objects it predicts.

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Calling Everett’s interpretation the “many worlds interpretation” is like calling a particle’s wave function the “many particles interpretation”—it’s not wrong, but it makes it sound like you’ve got a multitude of separate things when you’ve really just got one thing of a different kind.