“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Goodbye Many Worlds

Told you. The odds on a Bohm-Hiley or Valentini or de Broglie style quantum reality are getting higher all the time. Many worlds depends on supersymmetry. Supersymmetry is in big trouble.

That means that when a particle goes into coherence, something is really happening, in this world. Holding on to particles as ontically given (by measurement) means you have to believe in many worlds or faster than light communication. Since neither is possible (at this point), there is a much narrower range of interpretations of QT.

1 comment:

kamal said...

http://www.yohyoh.com/nature