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[edit] I need an advocate and help with mediation
Greetings,
I need an advocate who will walk me through the mediation application.
I am trying to get the following added to the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
I am having problem with an editor by the name of Lethe who follows me around Wikipedia reverting all my edits without commentary.
I have tried reasoning with him on discussion pages, but he refuses to read what I write. Advantages of MWI If Hugh Everett's theory was just another interpretation of Quantum Mechanics it would have no followers, especially since it proposes the existence of countless other unverses which theoretically can never be observed. Because it is not falsifiable it seemingly violates Popper's criteria for a good scientific theory. The reason it has so many adherents is because it offers numerous advantages over the Copenhagen Interpretation, among which are the following:
1. Quantum mechanics becomes a deterministic theory making it more compatible with the theory of relativity and all other physics theory to date which are all deterministic. The Coppenhagen Interpretation introduced indeterminacy and randomness into science. Aside from the Coppenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics there is no scientific theory that includes indeterminacy or randomness. Einstein particularly objected to this aspect of the Coppenhagen Interpretation. In response to it, he said, "God does not play dice with the universe."
2. It eliminates the "measurement problem."
3. It eliminates Von Neumann's "boundary problem": where to draw the line between the micro world where quantum mechanics applies, and the macro world where it does not. Shortly before his death in 1953, Albert Einstein wrote: "Like the moon has a definite position whether or not we look at the moon, the same must also hold for the atomic objects, as there is no sharp distinction possible between these and macroscopic objects."
4. It eliminates the special place for an observer and human consciousness.
5. It restores objective reality of the universe between measurements. Shortly before his death, Albert Einstein also wrote: "Observation cannot CREATE an element of reality like a position, there must be something contained in the complete description of physical reality which corresponds to the possibility of observing a position, already before the observation has been actually made."
6. The wave-particle duality paradox evaporates. It simply and naturally explains the double-slit experiment. Richard Feynman said, "[the double-slit experiment] has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality it contains the only mystery." David Deutcsh wrote: ". . . the argument for the many worlds was won with the double-slit experiment."
7. Schrodinger's Cat paradox evaporates.
Based on the above advantages, it seems Einstein's main objections with quantum mechanics had more to do with the Copenhagen Interpretation, than with quantum mechanics itself[citation needed]. While MWI does not quite generate the kinds of worlds necessary to justify the anthropic principle, it is a step on the way to Stephen Hawking's No Boundary Proposal and Max Tegmark's All Universe Hypothesis which do justify the anthropic principle[citation needed].
Michael D. Wolok 17:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Regarding Association of Members' Advocates
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[edit] Einstein DID have Problem with Coppenhagen Interpretation more than QM; Einstein also was "glass half empty" rather than "half full" here; PLUS: A Bonus for how to understand Bayesian Statistics
The Coppenhagen interpretation of QM says that nothing EXISTS in the world such as position and mometum -- NOT UNTIL A SENTIENT BEING MAKES A MEASUREMENT. It is not that there is uncertainty, it is that such a thing does not exist. The sentient creature capable of measurement does a GOD-LIKE act of CREATION when s/he/it performs the measurement and COLLAPSES the wavefunction. Prior to the measurement, yes, the wavefunction was "in a superposition of states" but what EXISTED was indeed that wavefunction. The wavefunction (by multiplying itself by its complex conjugate) becomes a probability distribution, but the WAVEFUNCTION ITSELF IS WHAT EXISTS in the world. The wavefunction exists in the world whether or not a mind ever existed, whether or not a measurement is ever made, whether or not the wavefunction ever gets collapsed by a creature wishing to do his/her God-like act of creating a magnitude into the world. So, Einstein, you focused only on what did NOT exist in the world without a mind -- which is what so riled you up about those Coppenhagen folks. But Einstein, you forgot that the Coppenhagen folks were just as vehement about the wavefunction EXISTING independent of any mind (like you greatly prefer) as they were about the magnitudes NOT existing until a mind collapsed the wavefunction. In short, Einstein saw the glass as half empty and then totally forgot that he was focused on only half of the glass. Another summary: as idealist (non-existence without mind) as the Coppenhagen folks were about magnitudes (position, momentum etc), those same Coppenhagen folks were total realists about the wavefunction's ontological status.
A BONUS ON UNDERSTANDING BAYESIAN STATISTICS
To the Sampling Theory statistician, the truth is a pure number. The unknown parameter, if given an audience with God, could be stated as e.g. 3.452. The data, however, are random variables. To the Bayesian, just the opposite is true. The Bayesian says, "waddaya mean my data are random variables? I got 2.17. What's random about that?" To the Bayesian, the parameter, the truth, is a probability density function. There are many implications for statistics, terminology, and computation procedure, but here the philosophy part of the Sampling Theory - Bayesian dichotomy is aided by a one-to-one correspondence of the Bayesian with the Coppenhagen interpretation of QM. When the Bayesian says "I got 2.17! What's random about that?", that is isomorphic to the Coppenhagen QM'er saying "That was the measurement result. I collapsed the wavefunction." When a Bayesian talks about the parameter, the truth being a probability density function, that is isomorphic to the Coppenhagen QM'er saying that "what really exists in the world is the wavefunction". When the Coppenhagen QM'er talks of this wavefunction being in a superposition of states, that is isomorphic to the Bayesian talking about the prior distribution on the parameter. Bayesian statistics may seem weird (in some ways: truth is a probability density function) but in other ways not (which I can't go into). But clearly the Bayesian Statistician's isomorphic ontology with the Coppenhagen QM'er makes Bayesian Statistics in a sense, well, sensible. Sampling Theory statistics is Newtonian; Bayesian Statistics is specifically Coppenhagen QM.199.196.144.11 19:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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