Why the World Cannot Really Split in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

In the Many Worlds interpretation, the universal quantum state is a giant superposition of all objects in the universe: There is no ‘wave function’ collapse in this interpretation, so everything remains entangled. How then does this universe ‘split’? The usual story says that a measurement process yields several possibilities, much like the different possible sizes … Continue reading Why the World Cannot Really Split in the Many-Worlds Interpretation