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The Emergent Multiverse

David Wallace

Presenting a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory, aka the Everett interpretation, David Wallace offers a clear and up-to-date survey of work on this theory in physics and in philosophy of science.

Oxford University Press eBooksMay 24, 2012528 citations

An Attempt to Understand the Many-worlds Interpretation of Quantum Theory

Euan J. Squires

The general class of what are called “Many–worlds” interpretations of quantum theory are entirely appropriate for this book, since they all originate from the paper of Everett (1957) which was based on the crucial assumption that the state vector of any system, ∣ψ>, changes with time only in accordance with the time-dependent Schrödinger equation: 1 i ℏ ∂ ∂ t | Ψ 〉 = H | Ψ 〉

CRC Press eBooksOct 19, 20171 citation

Are there really many worlds in the "Many-worlds interpretation" of Quantum Mechanics?

Daniel Parrochia

Since the 1970s, the Everett-Wheeler many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics (1955) has been much in the news. One wonders about the worlds in question, their branches, their splittings, their number. It is most often ignored that this language is not that of Everett, whom Wheeler very quickly stopped supporting. Moreover, for some interpreters, the real meaning of Everett ideas is not the coexistence of many worlds, but the existence of a single quantum one. In this context, what should we think of attempts to verify Everett thesis? What about the connexion between MWI and the cosmological multiverse? How to understand the links between the quantum world and the classical one? This article tries to answer some of these questions.Since the 1970s, the Everett-Wheeler many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics (1955) has been much in the news. One wonders about the worlds in question, their branches, their splittings, their number. It is most often ignored that this language is not that of Everett, whom Wheeler very quickly stopped supporting. Moreover, for some interpreters, the real meaning of Everett ideas is not the coexistence of many worlds, but the existence of a single quantum one. In this context, what should we think of attempts to verify Everett thesis? What about the connexion between MWI and the cosmological multiverse? How to understand the links between the quantum world and the classical one? This article tries to answer some of these questions.

arXiv:2001.03771Jan 11, 20200 citations

Quantum Structures of a Model-Universe: An Inconsistency with Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

J. Jeknić-Dugić, M. Dugić, A. Francom

arXiv:1109.6424International Journal of Theoretical PhysicsSep 19, 201310 citations

The Case for the Everett Multiverse

David Wallace

I give a non-technical presentation of the argument that quantum mechanics, in the form in which it is currently used, needs to be understood in many-worlds (Everettian) terms; the alternatives that have been discussed are at present not able to reproduce the full empirical content of the theory. This is a draft of a chapter for the forthcoming \emph{Blackwell Companion to Philosophy and the Multiverse (Klaas Kraay and Daniel Rubio, eds.) }

quant-pharXiv:2608.07706Aug 11, 20260 citations

Deconstructing spookiness: Emergent Quantum Mechanics explains the quantum world

Research outreachJun 1, 20200 citations

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