[ExI] Criticisms of Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI)

[efc at swisscows.email]

Hello Stuart,

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:

> It might be testable. For example, I think the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester 
> only makes sense if MWI is true.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_tester
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEaU9ILHmw

Just adding this for completeness sake:

"Jean Bricmont offered an interpretation of the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb test in terms of Bohmian mechanics.[10] It has also been argued that the bomb test can be constructed within the Spekkens toy model, suggesting that it is a less dramatic illustration of non-classicality than other quantum phenomena like the violation of Bell inequalities.[11]" (same wikipedia page)

and that it seems that the inventors/supporters or other interpretations
are hard at work as well designing experiments:

"An experiment was conducted in 2016 which demonstrated the potential
validity of the de-Broglie-Bohm theory via use of silicone oil droplets.
In this experiment a drop of silicone oil is placed into a vibrating
fluid bath, it then bounces across the bath propelled by waves produced
by its own collisions, mimicking an electron's statistical behavior with
remarkable accuracy.[116][117]"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory#Experiments).

Best regards, 
Daniel