<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:02 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>Everett's theory simply replaces spooky action at a distance with spooky accounting at a distance</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">So what did you expect, a theory that<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> restores</span> your common sense notions of how the world should work? It <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">just </span>ain't gonna happen.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Any theory that accurately describes reality at the fundamental level is going to be weird, very weird. If Many Worlds isn't true then something even spookier must be.</span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>Agreed. The particles are not in communication with each other but they do seem to be in communication with Schrodinger's equation </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">That's not just true of Everett's interpretation, that's true of <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">EVERY</span> interpretation of<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Quantum Mechanics, if they weren't consistent with Schrodinger's equation then they wouldn't match experimental results and would have to be rejected. And by the way, particles also seem to be in "communication" with Newtons formula F=MA.</span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Another related question would  be where does the wave function reside</i></blockquote><div><i> </i></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I</span>nfinite-dimensional</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hilbert Space.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><i> How does math cause anything except within minds and computers?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Mathematics may be the language that best describes physics but mathematics is not physics. And the English word "cow" describes a bovine that is female, but "cow" is not a cow,  the word "cow" can not give you milk.</font><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And </span></span><a href="https://publicdelivery.org/magritte-not-a-pipe/" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This is not a pipe </a></font></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>What is breathing fire into the Schrodinger equation</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Nothing is breathing fire into Schrodinger's equation, and nothing is breathing fire in<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to</span> the English word <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>cow<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span> either, that's why <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>cow<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span> can't even <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">say Moo. </span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></div>