Re: Is the Multiverse Concept Dead ?

Primordial — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:11:33 GMT

Buck2419ad : I studied your website's experiment, the one presented by Mr. Afshar, and it left me wanting to know many of the parameters of the wire, as to the size the type of surface etc., so I could not realy tell you much about the out come presented by Mr. Afshar, I guess we will just wait untill science news picks up on it. But thank you very much for the article, it was interesting.

Is the Multiverse Concept Dead ?

Buck2419ad — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:21:45 GMT

In the multiverse concept it is said that out of all possible universes that exist we live in the one where everything came together to form life. It is said that the "Many Worlds"interperatation of quantum mechanics make this possible. A way has been found to falsify certain interpretations of quantum mechanics. The Afshar experiment used a modified Wheeler "Which Way" set up. What Afshar did was to place one or more wires at previously measured positions of the interference minima. Then Afshar measures the difference in light received at the pinhole images with and without the wires in place. In the Copenhagen or Many Worlds interpretations there should be a 6% interception of light and no interference. What Afshar observed is the amount of light intercepted is small and consistent with zero % interception. This makes the Copenhagen and Many Worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics falsified by experiment. My question is this,"Would this make the Multiverse concept dead if this proves out ?".

To read my source for this go to http://www.npl.washington.edu/av

Click on "Quantum Mechanics"

Click on " A Farewell to Copenhagan"

Cosmology

Re: Is the Multiverse Concept Dead ?

Is the Multiverse Concept Dead ?