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Re: Parallel Universe



I was taught it as "The God in the machine."

bc

p.s. NOT Deus ex machina, tho it does have some similarity!

John Denker wrote:

Here's a parable: True fact: to make french fries, you need
a pot of hot oil. Another true fact: some people like to
put catsup on their french fries, although other people find


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Isaac Newton achieved the same goal in far fewer words when
he said "Hypotheses non fingo." That is, if you try to
imagine the rules of QM as being implemented in terms of
gears and machinery, you will never get it right ... just
as you will never be able to properly describe the operation
of the Maxwell equations in terms of "lines of force".

The MWI offers to replace overly-simple notions of the
"machinery" that enforces the laws of physics with a new
type of "machinery" that is capable of explaining _anything_.
It is therefore not a scientific theory at all. As Popper
would say, it is unfalsifiable ... it can "explain" magic
and miracles just as easily as it "explains" QM.



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