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Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
Lex Fridman Podcast
Quantum Theory - What Are the Alternatives?
The Copenhagen interpretation and the many worlds, maybe there's a difference between them. And just in general, what is the space of promising contenders? We have democratic debates now, there's a bunch of candidates on stage. What are the quantum mechanical candidates on stage for the debate? So if you had a debate between quantum mechanical contenders, there'd be no problem getting 12 people up there on stage but there would still be only three frontrunners. Right now the frontrunners would be Everett. Hidden variable theories are another one. The wave function is not everything. It's part of reality, but it's not everything. Many worlds says that quantum systems are sometimes are wave-like in some ways
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