Thursday, August 6, 2020

To the future, whatever it will be

...One of the problems of predicting the future is that, according to one quantum interpretation described by Max Tegmark (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.1283.pdf), anything that can happen (even at the quantum level), happens; and the universe then splits into one future where it happens, and one where it doesn't. Think Schrodinger's cat, alive in one future, dead in another (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat). Your existential future depends on which of those universes you are swept into. Supposedly there are an infinite number of "other" you, each in a different universe, with a different future (but the same past, up to the moment the univers splits). Or according to another interpretation, the Universe is a quantum probability wave that is collapsing into an actuality as we observe it. Billions of years so far, billions of years to go. And the future is still a probability, not a certainty...

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