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arXiv:1602.04247 (quant-ph)
[Submitted on 6 Feb 2016]

Title:Some remarks on the mathematical structure of the multiverse

Authors:Alan McKenzie
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    Abstract:The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum entanglement
    experiments is at best incomplete, since the intermediate state
    induced by collapse of the wave function apparently depends upon
    the inertial rest frame in which the experiment is observed.
    While the Many Worlds Interpretation of Everett, MWI, avoids the
    issue of wave function collapse, it, too, is a casualty of the
    special theory of relativity. This requires all events in the
    universe, past, present and future, to be unique, as in the block
    universe picture, which rules out Everett style branching. The
    benefits of MWI may be retained, however, by postulating a
    multiverse of discrete, parallel, block universes which are
    identical to each other up to certain points in the MWI trunk
    before they diverge according to the MWI branching. The quantum
    probability of an event then emerges from the number of parallel
    universes in which the event happens divided by the total number
    of universes. This means that the total number of such universes
    is finite. Such a picture is more easily envisaged by thinking of
    it as a purely mathematical structure, as in the Mathematical
    Universe Hypothesis proposed by Tegmark. However, while Tegmark
    wished to avoid contamination from Goedelian self referential
    knots, not only does such contamination appear to be inevitable,
    it brings an unexpected benefit. The mathematical hierarchy
    required by the enigmatic footnote 48a in the paper by Goedel
    leads to an explanation for a unitary evolution of deterministic
    quantum rules across the multiverse while accounting for quantum
    uncertainty within an individual universe. Other aspects of this
    structure, called here the Plexus, are discussed, including
    awareness of existence and other questions raised by the
    hypothesis.

Comments: 15 pages, 8 figures
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Cite as:  arXiv:1602.04247 [quant-ph]
          (or arXiv:1602.04247v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
          https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1602.04247
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From: Alan McKenzie [view email]
[v1] Sat, 6 Feb 2016 18:07:36 UTC (355 KB)
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