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Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
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Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
Season 9 Episode 31 | 19m 3s | CC
The mystery of what happens when we go from a superposition to a definite state is known as the Measurement Problem. The different interpretations of quantum mechanics are really about solving the measurement problem. But Many Worlds offers one thing that the other interpretations do not: there’s no collapse of the wavefunction - which might be the key to solving the measurement problem?
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