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Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

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Quantum Mechanics in a Black Hole: Many Worlds

There's no one unique way to describe what's going on inside a black hole. Different observers will have different descriptions, both of which are accurate but sound completely incompatible with each other. So many worlds is just a proposed solution to that problem. And the answer is, nothing special is happening. It's still just the Schrodinger equation, but you have a wave function too. That's a different answer than would be given in hidden variables and dynamical collapse theories or whatever.

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