R: Cirkovic's paper

From: scerir <scerir.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:54:11 +0200

> It's interesting that John Wheeler has come back to a no-collapse model.

Perhaps I am the first, in Italy, who read Everett's thesis and the
famous paper (1957). I was very interested in that "relative state"
theory. Also John Bell (who was not an Everettista, term invented by prof.
Fuchs) was interested.

John Wheeler told me (in Rome, beginning of '80s, Accademia dei Lincei)
that he (and also Gell-Mann) did not like that interpretation of the
"relative state" in the sense of "many worlds", all existing at the same
time. "There is a probability attached to every each of those worlds,
don't forget!" he said. And also Everett (in 1957) did not believe the
existence, at the same time, of all those worlds. (Everett did not use
the term "probability", but another expression, which I'm not able
to remember now, I must re-read that paper).

s.
Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 23:53:32 PDT