Spirituality and Theology
The title of this article from the Science of Us says it all: Men Would Rather Give Themselves Electric Shocks Than Sit Alone With Their Thoughts. Most people don’t think it’s fun to sit alone with nothing to do but think — it’s part of the reason for obsessive phone-checking during idle moments. A new …
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Sean Carroll argues forcefully for the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, first articulated by Hugh Everett. The formalism of quantum mechanics, in this view, consists of quantum states as described above and nothing more, which evolve according to the usual Schrödinger equation and nothing more. The formalism predicts that there are many worlds, so …