The many-worlds interpretation hit a roadblock almost immediately in the person of Everett’s PhD advisor at Princeton, the eminent physicist John Wheeler. Wheeler was a physicist’s physicist; he wasn’t terribly well known outside of the field, but he knew absolutely everyone important within it. He was a protégé of Bohr, and had also been close with Einstein. Fifteen years before Everett showed up at his door, Wheeler had supervised the PhD of a young Richard Feynman; he would later go on to supervise the PhDs of dozens more renowned physicists (including Kip Thorne, one of the winners of last year’s Nobel Prize in Physics).
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Wheeler may be one of the greatest physicists ever. He came up with his own crazy idea, one so nuts that his student Feynman had to call it too outlandish to be true.
Okay, gotta ask, which idea was as crazy (not that I don’t believe you, but I love crazy ideas).
Is this the single electron idea?