When Worlds Collide: Quantum Probability From Observer Selection?

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2001-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108070v3

Foundations of Physics 33(7), July 2003

Physics

Quantum Physics

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Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1619652

In Everett's many worlds interpretation, quantum measurements are considered to be decoherence events. If so, then inexact decoherence may allow large worlds to mangle the memory of observers in small worlds, creating a cutoff in observable world size. Smaller world are mangled and so not observed. If this cutoff is much closer to the median measure size than to the median world size, the distribution of outcomes seen in unmangled worlds follows the Born rule. Thus deviations from exact decoherence can allow the Born rule to be derived via world counting, with a finite number of worlds and no new fundamental physics.

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