Tuesday, March 26, 2013

News Blog: Hugh Everett: New film tackles "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics

News Blog: Hugh Everett: New film tackles "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics

"If everything physically possible happens in the universe, why do we only see one possibility at a time? That's the question philosophers are beating their heads bloody trying to answer," Byrne tells us.  "Everett's answer is there's more than one you, and you are splitting into trillions of copies of yourself every time there's a quantum interaction of a certain size."

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