Sean Carroll has a new book out, promoting the Everett Many Worlds theory as being correct even if (to say the least) counter-intuitive, and so there is some good reading about it around the 'net.
First, Carroll's own essay at Aeon gives a nice, pretty clear account. Well worth reading.
Secondly, the book must be pretty good, because fellow physicist Bee Hossenfelder gives it a good review at Backreaction.
And finally: another good review at NPR.
Update: Peter Woit liked the book, but is very annoyed that Sean Carroll is participating in some nonsense descriptions about what Many Worlds means.
Bonehead theory coming in to fill the vacuum that irrational physics leaves us.
ReplyDeleteThe key to understanding where all this nonsense is coming from is to go right back to aether-denial. Aether-denial, and the social pressure placed on scientists to deny aether, is really the mother of all science frauds. Its skewed everything from there on in. There was nothing fraudulent about the Neils Bohr/Ernest Rutherford model of the atom. But this model itself was conceived in the face of aether denial having been so strongly ingrained that they didn't think twice about creating this model, which predicted chemical reactions very well, but made no sense. You had to go with the Ernest Rutherford model. Ernest Rutherford really had to go with it, not for ego reasons, but because with aether elimination you couldn't get any other model to do the job.
ReplyDeleteSo hard on the heels of this there was the orchestrated fraud that Einstein was front man for. But by that time nothing made sense in physics. Now you have a few loners that could not hope to get a paid job, who have shown how allowing an aether clears up all the mysteries. Einsteins continuing fraud machine are not above rigging the figures, and thats why the oligarchs didn't have to go into the global warming fraud green. They were already experienced in controlling public science and so they never blinked an eyelid at rigging the data.