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- From: markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden)
- Subject: Re: Are there plans to perform a quantum eraser type experiment?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.162657.5861@smsc.sony.com>
- Keywords: quantum,measurement
- Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
- References: <C0045E.5w0@world.std.com> <1993Jan1.022047.23354@smsc.sony.com> <mcirvin.725862896@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 16:26:57 GMT
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- In article <mcirvin.725862896@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
- >... I've seen one lucidly miswritten account, in Paul Davies'
- >book _Other Worlds_, that actually trots out the Flatland analogy to
- >describe the extra spatial dimensions in which the "other universes"
- >are supposed to reside.
-
- Sounds like Davies has turned MWI into a bad western movie.
-
- "Pardner, there ain't enough room in this here wave function for the
- both of us. I 'spect you to git out into yaown spatial dimension by
- sundown!"
-
-
- >I'd forgive someone who read such
- >a thing and assumed that the Everett interpretation involved some kind
- >of bizarre cosmological rending in twain in place of collapse, even in
- >the absence of further research.
-
- I certainly agree that forgiveness is in order. However, having been
- brought up Catholic I can't resist throwing in a little penance:
-
- "Say three 'Our Fathers', three 'Hail Marys', and spend one hour at
- the nearest physics library."
-
- Actually, as an ex-Catholic I'd say skip the 'Our Fathers' and 'Hail Marys'
- and spend *two* hours in the physics library. Then go in peace!
-
- Mark Corscadden
- markc@smsc.sony.com
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