[HN Gopher] Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to ...
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       Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
        
       Author : wjb3
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2026-03-01 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | jadbox wrote:
       | How does "quantum darwinism" effectively select a state? Like how
       | does that work in principle- what is the selection criteria.
        
         | thyristan wrote:
         | Energy.
        
       | Nevermark wrote:
       | > None of the leading interpretations of quantum theory are very
       | convincing. They ask us to believe, for example, that the world
       | we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm
       | it's built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of
       | parallel universes, or that a mysterious process causes
       | quantumness to spontaneously collapse.
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       | Actually, the "many worlds" "interpretation", simply treats the
       | equations as meaning what they say.
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       | And it is misnamed. The field equations describe a highly
       | interconnected "web universe" of "tangles" (what I call spans of
       | entangled states) and "spangles", disjoint versions of particles.
       | Basically, union and intersection over versions where laws of
       | conservation are maintained.
       | 
       | Buy including all consistent versions, no external information is
       | required by the theory. It is informationally complete. An actual
       | explanation.
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       | There is no additional information needed to explain quantum
       | "collapse" because it is explained by the fast bifurcation of
       | disjoint tangles when lots of particle interact. So anyone
       | attempting to invent a mechanism for that is like someone trying
       | to explain why despite the world being spherical it is really
       | somehow still flat as well.
       | 
       | And the only reason to not take the field equations as a plain
       | reading, is the result is "too big" for someone's imagination.
       | 
       | Bluntly: The total field equations preserve information - that is
       | the plain implication for having both unions (tangles) and
       | intersections (spangles) of alternate versions.
       | 
       | Anything else requires magical information to choose collapses,
       | in order to explain something already explained. In other words,
       | it requires dressed up voodoo. And by "re-complicating", uh, "re-
       | explaining" the already explained, introduces a ridiculous new
       | puzzle. Where does that information come from? Saying it "just
       | happens" is like saying someone's version of a creator "just is".
       | It is a code for "Don't Ask Questions".
        
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