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A quantum world arising from many ordinary ones
Nature ^ | 10/24/14 | Alexandra Witze

Posted on 10/25/2014 2:08:48 AM PDT by LibWhacker

The bizarre behaviour of the quantum world — with objects existing in two places simultaneously and light behaving as either waves or particles — could result from interactions between many 'parallel' everyday worlds, a new theory suggests.

“It is a fundamental shift from previous quantum interpretations,” says Howard Wiseman, a theoretical quantum physicist at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, who together with his colleagues describes the idea in Physical Review X1.

Theorists have tried to explain quantum behaviour through various mathematical frameworks. One of the older interpretations envisages the classical world as stemming from the existence of many simultaneous quantum ones. But that ‘many worlds’ approach, pioneered by the US theorist Hugh Everett III in the 1950s, relies on the worlds branching out independently from one another, and not interacting at all (see 'Many worlds: See me here, see me there').

By contrast, Wiseman’s team envisages many worlds bumping into one another, calling it the 'many interacting worlds' approach. On its own, each world is ruled by classical Newtonian physics. But together, the interacting motion of these worlds gives rise to phenomena that physicists typically ascribe to the quantum world.

(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: many; parallel; quantum; science; stringtheory; worlds

1 posted on 10/25/2014 2:08:48 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

So is there a parallel world in which I understand this stuff?

(Nope.)


2 posted on 10/25/2014 2:38:39 AM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: LibWhacker
It's obvious these theorists read comic books when they were growing up.



3 posted on 10/25/2014 2:48:50 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch
Yep this one was big in the 1980s. I think it was produced to clean up a lot contradictions within the DC universe.


4 posted on 10/25/2014 3:19:08 AM PDT by xp38
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To: PastorBooks

There’s a parallel world in which you came up with this stuff!


5 posted on 10/25/2014 3:41:52 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: PastorBooks

Pastor, I’ve read that these “parallel” worlds only exist on a sub-atomic scale, that they “fold” in on each other after short periods of time ... the theorists are saying these things, only God knows the reality ...


6 posted on 10/25/2014 3:43:17 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: PastorBooks
"So is there a parallel world in which I understand this stuff?"

Doesn't matter, neither does the author.

7 posted on 10/25/2014 4:08:46 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: LibWhacker

Excuse me a moment while I feed the cat ....

(or bury it ;)


8 posted on 10/25/2014 5:13:15 AM PDT by mikrofon ("Schrodie")
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To: mikrofon

Good one, Dr. Schrödinger.


9 posted on 10/25/2014 5:24:18 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Doesn’t matter?

Matter is energy.


10 posted on 10/25/2014 5:45:21 AM PDT by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conumdrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: Ken522

Angels live there...


11 posted on 10/25/2014 5:51:25 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mm - ever.)
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To: glock rocks

Very good!


12 posted on 10/25/2014 6:32:20 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; backwoods-engineer; ...
Thanks LibWhacker.


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13 posted on 10/25/2014 9:14:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LibWhacker
They calculate, for instance, how 41 interacting worlds could give rise to the quantum interference seen in the famous double-slit experiment, which demonstrated that light could behave as either a wave or a particle.

Wow. Just about as far away from Occam's razor as you could possibly get. And by the way, the 41 worlds always just happen to be colliding at the right angle and right time whenever we run the double-slit? Because the results are always the same.

14 posted on 10/25/2014 10:03:55 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Ken522

“I’ve read that these “parallel” worlds only exist on a sub-atomic scale, that they “fold” in on each other after short periods of time ...”

Oh, like the FR server. :)


15 posted on 10/25/2014 12:18:12 PM PDT by PastorBooks
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To: LibWhacker

The Many Worlds Interpretation has been around for many years. At least in this world :-)


16 posted on 10/25/2014 1:19:46 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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