Issue #30 ~ Quantum physics is frequently viewed as violating the law of causality, namely that the same causes ought to produce the same effects. If I drop a ball from rest from a certain height, it will always reach the ground in the same amount of time, and with the same terminal speed. No matter how manytimes we repeat this experiment (and Galileo had done it till he was blue in the face) we will never obtain – to within an experimental error – a different result. The same initial conditions always produce the same final outcomes in classical physics.
That's a really lovely tour of 2 millenia worth of ideas. I've always had a bit of trouble reconciling the "branching" interpretation of quantum mechanics with the Born rule but you usw it to great effect. I suppose since it's only a statistical rule one can invoke some sort of Cosmological principle for the multiverse to explain why the Born rule seems to work for "me"... Is that how you think about it?
That's a really lovely tour of 2 millenia worth of ideas. I've always had a bit of trouble reconciling the "branching" interpretation of quantum mechanics with the Born rule but you usw it to great effect. I suppose since it's only a statistical rule one can invoke some sort of Cosmological principle for the multiverse to explain why the Born rule seems to work for "me"... Is that how you think about it?