Many-worlds interpretation
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"I remembered too that night which is at the middle of the Thousand and One Nights when Scheherazade (through a magical oversight of the copyist) begins to relate word for word the story of the Thousand and One Nights, establishing the risk of coming once again to the night when she must repeat it, and thus on to infinity…" --"The Garden of Forking Paths" (1941) Jorge Luis Borges |
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The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction, but denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternative histories and futures are real—each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). It is also referred to as MWI, the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, or just many worlds.
See also
- Consistent histories
- EPR paradox
- Fabric of Reality
- Garden of Forking Paths
- Interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Many-minds interpretation
- Multiverse
- Multiple histories
- Quantum immortality - a thought experiment.
- Wave function collapse
