Simpler than what?
... sir, you have a very... 'slippery' manner of discourse. It makes it difficult to figure out exactly what it is you're trying to say and when.
You suggested that there was a simpler model than either CI or MWI. So what is it?
Newton's laws are simpler than Newton's laws plus elan vital
Yes but that's not the topic at this point. In other subthreads I'm sure elan vital may be relevant, but not this subthread.
Once you get General Relativity, you've explained away time dilation.
What in the hell? Excuse me, but... I'm not aware of any theories of 'time dilation' that predate General/Special Relativity.
Your methods of 'explanation' leave me mightily confused, sir.
No. Evidence shows that the simpler models that don't explain this are outright false.
You're missing the point -- that being that a simpler model that doesn't explain for the available evidence is wrong -- and yet your previous comment suggests otherwise.
"Entanglement" means that each combination of states exists separately.
Huh? This isn't even grokking for me.
If every particle in the universe is entangled, this means that there is an amplitude for each combination of particles.
... that isn't even remotely possible under the known mechanisms of quantum entanglement, sir. Entanglement between two pairs only lasts until some 'measuring' event occurs upon one of the pairs.
Actually, after reading:
There's also one that looks exactly like how it would have ended up if Germany won WWII.
I can only say that... you have a very bad understanding of quantum mechanics if you think this is intelligible under the topic at hand.
Quantum. Mechanics. Does. Not. Work. This. Way.
I suggest, sir, that before you attempt to explain this any further you get a deeper understanding of the phenomena at hand.
Edit: Double post.
I am looking for examples of mysterious answers that were eventually explained *away* by science. I can think of two: One is the belief that the behaviour of living things was explained by the mysterious force of elan vital, and not by mere chemistry; which was destroyed by the synthetisation of urea. The other is the special (and mysterious) role of the conscious observer in quantum mechanics, which was explained away by demonstrating that rocks can get entangled with electrons just as much as brains can. Can anyone furnish me with other examples?
I observe in passing that phlogiston is *not* such a mysterious answer. Eliezer is down on it, but I think unjustly so; for people did in fact perform experiments on phlogiston, including the final experiment to find the weight of the phlogiston that had passed out of the burning material and into the byproducts. It turned out that the phlogiston had negative mass... in other words, that the direction of the transfer had been misidentified. But if you think of phlogiston as `negative oxygen', it makes the same predictions as modern chemical theory. This is no worse a mistake than mistaking the direction of the current, a mistake which is *still* enshrined in our sign conventions; it is not a mysterious answer of the form "X->Y" with no details of X given and any value allowed for Y.
However, I digress. Mysterious answers blown away by experiments, anyone?