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#521 - Sabine Hossenfelder - Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics

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Is the Many Worlds Indeterminist?

In the many words interpretation, you don't collapse the wave function. You just say, well, now there are two universes or three or four or five. And each of them happens in its own universe. So what that would mean is that each universe is deterministic because you are following down the path of one. But it's not necessarily the case that those quantum events remain small. They can certainly grow into macroscopic differences. This is what Schrödinger tried to illustrate with his famous cat thought experiment.

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