shminux comments on If Many-Worlds Had Come First - Less Wrong

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 28 August 2014 06:25:31PM *  0 points [-]

A real testable difference between QM interpretations is a Nobel-worthy Big Deal<tm>. I doubt it will be coming.

Comment author: shminux 28 August 2014 07:30:54PM 1 point [-]

Actually, Nobel does not begin to cover it, whether it would be awarded or not (even J.S. Bell didn't get one, though he was nominated the year he died). Showing experimentally that, say, there is an objective collapse mechanism of some sort would probably be the biggest deal since the invention of QM.

Comment author: private_messaging 29 August 2014 05:42:47AM 1 point [-]

And even just formally applying all the complexity stuff that is alluded to in the sequences, to the question of QM interpretation, would be a rather notable deed.