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-2 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 15 December 2011 05:25AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2011 06:32:03AM 1 point [-]

from my understanding of MW, the question of how many worlds can be answered pretty well by ~2 to the power of the average number of decoherence events since the beginning. Unless there's some wierdness with a lot of worlds getting terminated or still-lifed early.

The difference between counting the states in a quantum computer (for example) as one world or many is at most a constant factor, so the fuzziness on our concept of "world" isn't actually that much of a big deal. (I chose a quantum computer because it is probably the most definition-stretching phenomenon).

barring weird stuff like quantum computers, branches get very separate very fast, so I don't think it's all that weird to talk about number of worlds.

Comment author: Peterdjones 22 July 2013 01:15:23PM 0 points [-]

the question of how many worlds can be answered pretty well by ~2 to the power of the average number of decoherence events since the beginning.

Deocherence evernts aren't well defined .. they are always FAPP. That;s the source of the problem.