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In Many Worlds virtual particles are simply other universes (other parts of Hilbert space) that have electrons in different positions. They are nearby enough to contribute some amp…

It does not require FTL signalling for the entanglement to work.

Ask them about their enterprise licensing and see if you still have the same opinion.

Death by Snoo-Snoo

If I understand it a free particle is not really quantised; it can have pretty much any wavelength. But when it is confined by boundary conditions (e.g. within an atom) we then get…

The Many Worlds Interpretation plus Sleeping Beauty can directly explain this.

You don't need to hack voting machines. If you control the body that allocates them in your area you send more of them to areas favourable to your desired outcome. So in other area…

Jeremy Clarkson published his bank account details in his column to back up his assertion that you can send money to a bank account but not withdraw any. However apparently anybody…

In QM random outcomes occur. By what mechanism are the random values chosen? Many Worlds has a plausible mechanism for this. I'm unaware of any other interpretation claiming the sa…

You are in A wondering why you are in A. You are also in B wondering why you are in B, and so on. It's all perfectly consistent.

The Everett FAQ makes even stronger claims about the status of Many Worlds. See http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm#interpretation

I wonder how that compares to a single AWS data centre.

They used to say the Space Shuttle isn't ready to fly unless the weight of the paperwork is equal to the weight of the shuttle.

You might find this interesting http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...

Somebody should create a CV with years of experience in all the worst technologies and circulate it through all the worst recruiters and see what happens.

The Everett FAQ Q16 disagrees. http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm And if you're in the mood for a lot of reading http://lesswrong.com/lw/r8/and_the_winner_is_manyworlds/

The Many Worlds Interpretation explains all of this quite intuitively http://lesswrong.com/lw/r8/and_the_winner_is_manyworlds/

Well one of those games is playing world championship level chess. Pretty cool for something that fits in your pocket.

Is computing Chaitin's omega the most pointless waste of time that can possibly be imagined, by definition? If you actually had the value can you do anything with it at all?

I took a university course on Unix internals in 1988. The lecturer started by announcing "this is the last year that we will teach this course as Unix is now very out of date and i…

I was dealing with this a couple of days ago: List >>> Sigh.

It's widely reported. For example http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...

So if any of this was true it would all just be an amazing coincidence that the pilot was in a courtroom seeing a political figure he strongly supported for years getting a hefty s…

Try writing a complex program in 1960s era COBOL. Then you will understand a large part of Lisp's claim to fame.