Sean Carroll

No, I'm not familiar with that at all. Ordinarily, if I were not familiar with it, I would just skip over the question. But it's an interesting issue. I really want there to be experimental tests you can do to decide between these different theories. There are experimental tests you can do to decide between objective collapse models like GRW and Bohm slash Everett.

No, I'm not familiar with that at all. Ordinarily, if I were not familiar with it, I would just skip over the question. But it's an interesting issue. I really want there to be experimental tests you can do to decide between these different theories. There are experimental tests you can do to decide between objective collapse models like GRW and Bohm slash Everett.

As far as I know, there aren't any tests to distinguish between Bohm and Everett. But I'm open-minded about still looking. You know, there's arguments that Bohm and Everett should give the same result, but there's also arguments, in fact, there's arguments from both sides that the other side just doesn't make sense, right?

As far as I know, there aren't any tests to distinguish between Bohm and Everett. But I'm open-minded about still looking. You know, there's arguments that Bohm and Everett should give the same result, but there's also arguments, in fact, there's arguments from both sides that the other side just doesn't make sense, right?

So if you talk to either Bohmians or Everettians, who are more or less made up their minds, and you ask them the reason why they don't like the other one, it's typically because they don't think the other one does the job of being a well-defined theory that fits the data. and of course they think that theirs does.

So if you talk to either Bohmians or Everettians, who are more or less made up their minds, and you ask them the reason why they don't like the other one, it's typically because they don't think the other one does the job of being a well-defined theory that fits the data. and of course they think that theirs does.

So anyway, none of this is specifically about electrons and orbitals and in molecules and so forth, but just to say that I can imagine something like that being true. So I've not read the paper, but I can imagine that in a theory like GRW, which is one where there's a random chance that the wave function of a particle will spontaneously localize every moment or whatever,

So anyway, none of this is specifically about electrons and orbitals and in molecules and so forth, but just to say that I can imagine something like that being true. So I've not read the paper, but I can imagine that in a theory like GRW, which is one where there's a random chance that the wave function of a particle will spontaneously localize every moment or whatever,

you could show that something, some feature of chemistry or solid state materials physics or something like that just doesn't work under these models. So I'm all in favor of doing that. It would be very, very hard to distinguish between Bohm and Everett on that account because Bohm and Everett have the same equation for the wave function. The wave function is just obeying the Schrodinger equation.

you could show that something, some feature of chemistry or solid state materials physics or something like that just doesn't work under these models. So I'm all in favor of doing that. It would be very, very hard to distinguish between Bohm and Everett on that account because Bohm and Everett have the same equation for the wave function. The wave function is just obeying the Schrodinger equation.

But I still am holding out hope for some subtle difference that will let us test these ideas experimentally. Will says, I have moments when the suffering and unfairness of the world feels just too much to bear.

But I still am holding out hope for some subtle difference that will let us test these ideas experimentally. Will says, I have moments when the suffering and unfairness of the world feels just too much to bear.

When one sees children killed by bombs or suffering from horrible incurable diseases or learns about life in crushing dictatorships or poverty, one yearns for some cosmic justice that those who suffered will be made whole one day and that all the suffering wasn't just a hideous waste. These are the moments when I would be most inclined to religion, probably as a form of wishful thinking.

When one sees children killed by bombs or suffering from horrible incurable diseases or learns about life in crushing dictatorships or poverty, one yearns for some cosmic justice that those who suffered will be made whole one day and that all the suffering wasn't just a hideous waste. These are the moments when I would be most inclined to religion, probably as a form of wishful thinking.

When you have these moments, what do you turn to? Are there philosophers or ideas that you find helpful in this regard? Not specifically philosophers or ideas. I do think that just truly taking on the philosophy of

When you have these moments, what do you turn to? Are there philosophers or ideas that you find helpful in this regard? Not specifically philosophers or ideas. I do think that just truly taking on the philosophy of

of naturalism, of, you know, the world is not guided by any external forces, it just obeys the laws of physics, and appreciating that those laws of physics and the initial conditions or whatever include an enormous amount of information that we don't have access to, and therefore there will be things happen that we don't like and can't predict and can't do anything about, I think it is possible just to accommodate oneself to those true facts about the universe.

of naturalism, of, you know, the world is not guided by any external forces, it just obeys the laws of physics, and appreciating that those laws of physics and the initial conditions or whatever include an enormous amount of information that we don't have access to, and therefore there will be things happen that we don't like and can't predict and can't do anything about, I think it is possible just to accommodate oneself to those true facts about the universe.

We're all going to die. Probably life itself will someday cease. I have plans for the future, some of which will turn out and some of which will not. I've had plans in the past that did not turn out. It doesn't make it any easier in the moment. You know, when a close friend of yours is sick or passes away, that doesn't make it any less tragic and hurtful when that happens. But

We're all going to die. Probably life itself will someday cease. I have plans for the future, some of which will turn out and some of which will not. I've had plans in the past that did not turn out. It doesn't make it any easier in the moment. You know, when a close friend of yours is sick or passes away, that doesn't make it any less tragic and hurtful when that happens. But