[ExI] Many Worlds (was: A Simulation Argument)

[Lee Corbin]

The Avantguardian writes

> In regards to the larger issue, IMO MWI is a convoluted and inelegant
> theory.
> It tempts Ockham's Razor much as Aubrey de Grey's beard tempts
> a Gillete. I have many objections to it. For one thing, it violates
> conservation of energy.

It looks like you suppose that the new extra universe has an
equal energy consumption budget to the old one. So it looks
like you don't understand that it's like a river branching. The
sum of the two new branches has the same material sum as
the original.

> While spontaneous creation of virtual particle
> antiparticle pairs does so too, it only does so for very short lengths
> of time. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle under Special relativity
> says that Delta E * Delta t >= hbar/2.
> 
> That is to say that a system only has an energy when it exists long
> enough for it settle on a definite frequency. Other universes should
> only pop into being "spontaneously" if they are not around long enough
> to settle on a definite energy. If they do have a definite energy then
> by thermodynamics, that energy has to come from somewhere.

River deltas don't violate the conservation of flow water.  In the
same way, branching universes don't result in more of anything
except information.

Lee