The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (level 3 multiverse) dissertation

• Book ID: 125987838
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1956
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 91 KB
• Series: Princeton series in physics
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Standards
• ISBN-13: 9780691081267

✦ Synopsis

The genuine Hugh Everett's dissertation paper, completed in April 1956 as The Theory of the Universal Wave Function - he defended his thesis after some delay in the spring of 1957.

The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics.
It is also known as MWI, the relative state formulation, theory of the universal wavefunction, parallel universes, many-universes interpretation or just many worlds.
Many-worlds asserts the objective reality of the wavefunction, but denies the reality of wavefunction collapse. The subjective appearance of wavefunction collapse is explained by the mechanism of quantum decoherence. By this means many-worlds claims to resolve all of the correlation paradoxes of quantum theory, such as the EPR paradox[1][2] and Schrödinger's cat[3], since every possible outcome to every event defines or exists in its own "history" or "world." In layman's terms, this means that there is a very large, perhaps infinite, number of universes since everything that could possibly have happened in our past (but didn't) has occurred in the past of some other universe(s).

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation)

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