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JoshuaZ comments on [LINK] The Wrong Objections to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 February 2015 04:39:57AM 4 points [-]

"The conservation of energy is a rule within the universe; it does not apply to splitting universes.

One way of interpreting the math is even more basic: from the perspective of conservation of energy, there's still just one universe with different parts of the wave function not interacting.