Luke_A_Somers comments on Collapse Postulates - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DonGeddis 09 May 2008 05:21:34PM 4 points [-]

Bob: But multiple worlds are observed, in subatomic phenomena. That's what superposition is. There is experimental evidence for multiple worlds.

Determinism is also observed, at the subatomic level.

So the alternative is: (1) It's exactly the same at the macroscopic level (= decoherence), or else (2) Something new, with no experimental evidence, must be happening at the macroscopic level (= collapse).

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 30 April 2012 02:52:15PM 5 points [-]

Not sub-atomic. Multi-atomic. Poly-atomic. Just not macroscopic.