<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Adrian Tymes </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>if the Earth were hollow, echoes of quakes and sonograms would turn out measurably differently than they have</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">Yes, and the theory that the Earth is solid explains all those experimental results, and that theory <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">that explains it is</div> not weird <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">at all </div>which is nice. But if the quantum world behaved in ways that even a child would say <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">it</div> obviously should then our experimental results would be very different from what they actually are. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>Many Worlds is far from the only explanation for the discrepancy between intuition and reality, <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">(</div>Copenhagen, Pilot Wave, Transactional etc) but every single one of those explanations is weird. Deciding which explanation is least weird is largely a matter of taste. I just happen to feel that Many Worlds<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">although</div> very weird<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">, is </div>less weird than the alternatives<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">, and Copenhagen is the weirdest of all.</div> </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div> <br> </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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