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Ben00

Suppose we lived in a universe before any quantum decoherance tests were done. And now suppose I (as a scientist with a favourite pet personal theory) put forward the theory that multiple parallel universes exist, and start fleshing it out. One of the predictions this theory would make would be in the way entangled photons probabilities change-at-a-distance. Would not performing the test just described and coming up with a set of probabilities that matched the theories predictions be a valid scientific prediction?

If all that can be observed in a syste... (read more)

Ben-21

uh.... how do I put this....

No.

I am a wizard, so let me explain how it works:

The act of striking a match in a magical world causes the magical elements to exert force upon the oxygen molecules surrounding the tip of the match, creating a small oxygen-free space in which the match can't light.

-3Endovior
Yeah... No. Firstly, you are not a wizard. Unless perhaps you're engaging in useless definitional sophistry to pretend that wizard means something aside from common usage or some such nonsense, in order to fruitlessly pretend that you know what you're talking about. Secondly, you are explicitly inventing a nonsense explanation to explain a nonsense phenomenon. As well say that the match doesn't light in the magical world because magical energies destroy phlogiston.