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wolven7FUCK. YES.
When the multiverse and many-worlds collide"
'The puzzle is how decoherence might work on the scale of the entire universe: it too must exist in a superposition of states until some of the information it contains leaks out, leaving the single state that we see, but in conventional formulations of the universe, there is nothing else for it to leak into.
'What Bousso and Susskind have done is to come up with an explanation for how the universe as a whole might decohere. Their trick is to think of the volume of space that encompasses all the information in our universe and everything it might possibly interact with in the future. In previous work, Susskind has dubbed this region a causal patch. The new idea is that our universe is just one causal patch among many others in a much bigger multiverse.'
I am obviously RIDICULOUSLY excited by this, but I have to ask: How was this not an intuitive leap? For as long as I have thought about multiverse and many-worlds-- which is to say, about 21 years now-- this kind of interplay has been precisely what I've had in mind.
After Forever - Childhood in Minor--- But I've always said that the "only" thing stopping me from being a quantum mechanical genius is a deeper facility with maths. (After Forever - Beautiful Emptiness). Yeah. Just that.
Anyway, here's the paper where they go into the math: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3796 ('"We argue that the global multiverse is a representation of the many-worlds in a single geometry," they say. They call this idea the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics and in a paper now available online they have proposed the mathematical framework behind it.')
So... Yes. Yes. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes.
This is where I do my little happy dance for reasons best known only to me and my eight-year old self.
Awesome.
[EDIT 0100: After Forever - Between Love and fire--- If anyone wants to talk about the potential implications of this, in the comments, I'm more than happy to geek out about this, for hours.]
When the multiverse and many-worlds collide"
'The puzzle is how decoherence might work on the scale of the entire universe: it too must exist in a superposition of states until some of the information it contains leaks out, leaving the single state that we see, but in conventional formulations of the universe, there is nothing else for it to leak into.
'What Bousso and Susskind have done is to come up with an explanation for how the universe as a whole might decohere. Their trick is to think of the volume of space that encompasses all the information in our universe and everything it might possibly interact with in the future. In previous work, Susskind has dubbed this region a causal patch. The new idea is that our universe is just one causal patch among many others in a much bigger multiverse.'
I am obviously RIDICULOUSLY excited by this, but I have to ask: How was this not an intuitive leap? For as long as I have thought about multiverse and many-worlds-- which is to say, about 21 years now-- this kind of interplay has been precisely what I've had in mind.
After Forever - Childhood in Minor--- But I've always said that the "only" thing stopping me from being a quantum mechanical genius is a deeper facility with maths. (After Forever - Beautiful Emptiness). Yeah. Just that.
Anyway, here's the paper where they go into the math: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3796 ('"We argue that the global multiverse is a representation of the many-worlds in a single geometry," they say. They call this idea the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics and in a paper now available online they have proposed the mathematical framework behind it.')
So... Yes. Yes. Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes.
This is where I do my little happy dance for reasons best known only to me and my eight-year old self.
Awesome.
[EDIT 0100: After Forever - Between Love and fire--- If anyone wants to talk about the potential implications of this, in the comments, I'm more than happy to geek out about this, for hours.]
