MDMD subjunctive
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Sun Jan 13 21:34:57 CST 2002
http://www.csicop.org/si/2001-09/fringe-watcher.html
"[...] It all began seriously with an approach to quantum mechanics (QM)
called "The Many Worlds Interpretation" (MWI). In this view, widely
defended by such eminent physicists as Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking,
and Steven Weinberg, at every instant when a quantum measurement is made
that has more than one possible outcome, the number specified by what is
called the Schrödinger equation, the universe splits into two or more
universes, each corresponding to a possible future. Everything that can
happen at each juncture happens. Time is no longer linear. It is a rapidly
branching tree. Obviously the number of separate universes increases at a
prodigious rate. [...]
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