~ The costs of being blessed by the Multiverse ~

In each of the Twelve Holy Spots on the Earth (corresponding to the twelve vertices of the celestial icosahedron) lies a huge black sphere. The spheres are connected to an array of nuclear bombs, distributed in triangular networks on each face of the icosahedron. Each black sphere contains a quantum device which measures the spin of a...

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~ The costs of being blessed by the Multiverse ~

In each of the Twelve Holy Spots on the Earth (corresponding to the twelve vertices of the celestial icosahedron) lies a huge black sphere. The spheres are connected to an array of nuclear bombs, distributed in triangular networks on each face of the icosahedron. Each black sphere contains a quantum device which measures the spin of a particle at every split second. If the spin is found to be positive at least in one of the black spheres - the Multiverse’s “thumb” points up - then the bombs are exploded, destroying the world instantaneously. But, because there is a Multiverse, the world's habitants perceive it as surviving each split second.

Yearly, on the “Multiverse Day”, people from the entire world are traveling to the Twelve Holy Spots, to sing “Laudate Multiversum”, because it is only by the Multiverse’s mercy that the world is still alive.

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The bomb array is calculated so that, in the eventuality of a “thumb up”, the world be destroyed instantaneously. But a group of dissident scientists considered that there was a mistake, and that, between the sphere pixels containing the bombs, there are “death zones” places where the matter of your body will actually detect the deflagration. If you go to those zones, you will almost surely die, because you will almost certainly detect an explosion, caused by the spin up detection. The chances to survive are one in 10 to a very huge number. The conspiracy theorists proposed that the critical resolution of the celestial’s sphere pixelization should be larger, but it was reduced because it was the only way that the government approved the “Global Quantum Suicide Experiment”.

Despite all of these, people were traveling without problems in the “death zones”. Of course, the heretics argued that this is because, from our blessed world, we can perceive only the ones that did not detect the explosion. But, because their hypothesis is not testable, they had to shut up.

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Believe it or not, the world described above is not the luckiest one in the Multiverse. There are many other worlds, in which the spin up is detected, the explosion triggered, but the chain reaction interrupts and there is no explosion. You know, there is a very tiny possibility that a nuclear chain reaction interrupts, because the alpha particles can miss the nucleae. You would say that this chance will never happen. Well, mighty is the Multiverse, so in fact the number of worlds in which this really happens is in fact very large. There are even many worlds which are that lucky, that the detectors constantly detects spin up, but no explosion takes place, because the chain reactions “leak out”. People in these worlds used to be constantly in a mystical ecstasy, because of their luck, but they soon became bored.

But what is the price, in the Multiverse, of the luck in these worlds?

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In the meanwhile, at the antipode (with respect to the Multiverse) ...

There are damned worlds, in which explosions occurred, but people survived. They were irradiated, so that they are very sick, but they don’t die immediately. In fact, they can live long and suffering lives. You see, the nucleae in their body are constantly missed by the alpha particles, or at least are hit, but not split, just enough to allow them to survive in great pain.

You may say that this is impossible, that there is no way that they survive to those nuclear explosions, because the chances are very close to zero.

In fact, in the Multiverse, the number of these worlds is much larger than the number of the blessed worlds. In each split second, there are many worlds in which some bombs exploded, and others don’t because the chain reaction stopped. These worlds are much many than the blessed ones, because it is more likely to obtain at least one spin up (not necessarily at this very second), trigger the explosions, and then to have exploded only some of the bombs, and then the alpha particles miss enough nucleae to have damned survivors, than to find the spin down in all of them, or to have explosion with all chain reaction interrupted.

For each of the blessed worlds, a huge number of damned worlds are created.

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Some of them, eternally damned, because in those worlds people are suffering for eternity. Because, you see, there is a tiny chance that the human cells are repaired, so that you simply don’t die. Those people suffer forever in great pain. You may not believe me, and you may say that it is impossible, or at least, the chance is very, very, very tiny.

Yes, but in the Multiverse…

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Dear Jack,

I am sorry if you feel annoyed by my idea, but in truth, it makes sense. I will argue it from your blog at http://onqm.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-mwi.html.

You disagree with the collapse of the wave function, in your own words, "it doesn't work because generally speaking, in proposed models that give mathematical details of 'collapse', small residues remain in the other...

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Dear Jack,

I am sorry if you feel annoyed by my idea, but in truth, it makes sense. I will argue it from your blog at http://onqm.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-mwi.html.

You disagree with the collapse of the wave function, in your own words, "it doesn't work because generally speaking, in proposed models that give mathematical details of 'collapse', small residues remain in the other parts of the wavefunction. Small or not, these residues still go through trajectories that should give rise to computations and thus observers - " So you argue that their are small residues of wave functions that still "go through trajectories". I think you mean that they still 'exist'.

Then you said, "Each individual observer only notices a single classical-like world because that is the one associated with the motion of the peak giving rise to the computations of his own brain; the others don't have any effect on him." That statement alone is suggestive of my point.

Do you agree that the non-local nature of quantum mechanics is truly foundational? When we look closely enough into particle physics, we find that the ultimate reality looks like vibrating strings. These vibrating strings have eigenstates. In the classical point of view, all we see are the particular selection of eigenstates that were picked at random. Since "collapse of the wavefunction" is awkward and leaves residue, let's just say that the wavefunctions continue to evolve through all of the eigenstates.

As for the occult, yes I agree. Most of them come across as nutty. There is even the suggestion that logic and psychic phenomena are mutually exclusive. That has been my experience. But remember that the human brain constitutes a quantum system of its own. People who are psychic are not analyzing their thoughts like logical people do. They are following their instincts. These instincts represent a set of successful survival skills billions of years in the making. At the most basic rudimentary level, these instincts tell you who is not. If evolution can use quantum mechanics to carry information between two people, enough to create a rapport that could lead to sex and children, why wouldm't it? I have personally experienced this kind of instinctive connection with someone else, over the phone, hundreds of miles away, in fact. I couldn't obtain detailed numeric information, but I could tell what kind of a person this was. Physicists will dismiss such things as pure chance. Then, they will talk about quantum mechanics and eigenstates as dice games.

If there are many worlds in your opinion, then how do the brains of everyone in these many worlds remain isolated from one another? How do you maintain isolation between your thoughts, and the thoughts of your other selves in these other universes? How do you restrict quantum entanglement between your thoughts, and the thoughts of someone nearby who you have a close affinity with? By the way, are all of your other selves in these other universes always in the same identical geographic location as you are?

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