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	Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
		In this world, all objects which the sentient being perceives have definite states, but objects that are not under her observation might be in a superposition of different (classical) states.
		The Universe incorporates many worlds similar to the one the layman is familiar with.
		The MWI exhibits some kind of nonlocality: "world" is a nonlocal concept, but it avoids action at a distance and, therefore, it is not in conflict with the relativistic quantum mechanics; see discussions of nonlocality in Vaidman 1994, Tipler 2000, Bacciagaluppi 2002, and Hemmo and Pitowsky 2001.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/qm-manyworlds (7056 words)

	Many-Worlds FAQ
		For two branches or worlds to interfere with each other all the atoms, subatomic particles, photons and other degrees of freedom in each world have to be in the same state, which usually means they all must be in the same place or significantly overlap in both worlds, simultaneously.
		The norm of the vector of the set of worlds where experiments contradict the Born interpretation ("non-random" or "maverick" worlds) vanishes in the limit as the number of probabilistic trials goes to infinity, as is required by the frequentist definition of probability.
		Arguments that the world picture presented by this theory is contradicted by experience, because we are unaware of any branching process, are like the criticism of the Copernican theory that the mobility of the earth as a real physical fact is incompatible with the common sense interpretation of nature because we feel no such motion.
	www.cs.mu.oz.au /~fjh/many-worlds-faq.html (15879 words)

	Copenhagen v Many Worlds
		Many Worlds was developed as the universe seems to have existed before sentient beings evolved.
		It allows quantum level interactions to occur when scientists are not watching without the Many World's "unnecessary hypothesis" of a large number of extra unobserved universes floating around in alternate dimensions.
		Thus, with the future effecting the past, the Many Worlds can't be as lightly dismissed.
	polyticks.com /psi/worlds.htm (1003 words)

	Feet in Many Worlds
		Many of you have seen the Andrew Wyeth painting of "Christina's World." It shows a crippled young girl struggling up a hillside toward a bleak-looking house at the top, presumably her home.
		Many of you, members of this congregation, in addition to those twin worlds of home and work, undoubtedly keep feet in the worlds of other cultures and places.
		Some of you may live in the worlds of inter-faith, inter-ethnic or inter-racial partnerships and families, and others of you in the intergenerational families with, perhaps, their own differing worlds.
	uufwilmington.org /sermons/guests/feet_in_many_worlds.html (2386 words)

	Many Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		One example of a theory which includes provision for many worlds is the 'many worlds interpretation' of quantum mechanics - worlds branch into two or more near copies at every 'measurement-like interaction', according to the various possible outcomes of the interaction.
		Again, the fact that we may not be able to imagine many of the universes concerned nor ascribe numbers to each type should not put us off accepting the plausibility of the overall explanation any more than not being able to grasp the quantities involved.
		For many applications/discussions it will only be necessary to consider those universes which are readily classifiable as such, and can comfortably be conceived of in general terms.
	www.physica.freeserve.co.uk /p105.htm (1801 words)

	Many Worlds Apart
		Anyhow, strong or weak, the anthropic principle is often proffered as the reason that the universe is seemingly fine-tuned - that is, all the physical laws and constants of nature are calibrated just-so - to produce galaxies, stars, atomic matter, and, ultimately, life.
		For the weak anthropic principle to make sense as an explanation of fine-tuning, we must accept the notion that there exist many universes, most of them untuned and lifeless, but in which the fine-tuning issue would never be raised.
		I am, after all, fully aware that my belief is simply one of faith, and that the physics of the natural world provides no argument for this preference.
	www.dogchurch.org /scriptorium/worldsapart.htm (1210 words)

	Many Worlds Chess
		Many Worlds Chess is a chess variant, or something like a chess variant, invented by Adrian King in 1999.
		Many Worlds Chess was inspired, in part, by the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics.
		Obviously, the Many Worlds concept is not specific to Orthochess.
	www.chessvariants.com /large.dir/contest/manyworlds.html (1094 words)

	Exploring the Many Worlds Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The "Many Worlds Theory" was published in 1957 by Dr. Hugh Everett III.
		In each of these worlds, everything appears to be the same except for the result of the one choice that was made.
		Now that we have an idea of what the Many Worlds concept is all about, let's consider the potential consequences of this phenomenon.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/b/j/bjs286/astro/whatis.html (318 words)

	semantics etc.: Many Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The basic issue seems to be that if there truly are many worlds branching off from each other all the time (something also called the “no-collapse” theory), this has great impact on our thinking about decisions, ethics, and our philosophy of life in general.
		As long as the plurality of worlds is a harmless abstraction introduced to make it easier to think about the semantics of modal expressions in natural language, for example, such considerations may not be very disturbing.
		Lewis points out a truly disturbing thought: in many worlds, we eventually die of course and maybe that’s fine since we don’t have any further experiences in those worlds (we may of course worry about the people and the world we leave behind in those worlds).
	semantics-online.org /blog/2004/11/many_worlds (707 words)

	Too Many Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Therefore, to the many who have made the sacrifice to study the ugly side of life so that others may study the beautiful side, I offer my humblest thanks.
		Note that World War I "Wounds Not Mortal" as well as the Marine Corps contribution to WWII "Wounds Not Mortal" (68,207 of the 671,846) are actually "Wounded In Action" (i.e., number of soldiers wounded) and technically not "Wounds Not Mortal" (of which one soldier could receive multiple ones during his tour of duty, of course).
		Many religious traditions express how the divine spirit lost its identity, thus creating our world of turmoil, but in time it will find itself and all things will again become one.
	williamkaminsky.typepad.com /too_many_worlds (3088 words)

	Many Worlds - Edited by Steven J. Dick - Adobe Reader eBooks
		In Many Worlds, renowned scientists in fields from physics to astronomy discuss the possibility of a cosmic evolutionary process that guides not only our universe, but other planets and universes as well.
		Many Worlds first focuses on what lessons might be learned from the latest knowledge of the origin and evolution of life.
		As we reflect on the possibilities that the universe presents, author and contributor Christian de Duve aptly states, "Many myths have had to be abandoned.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/65006-ebook.htm (620 words)

	The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In each of these worlds, everything is identical, except for that one different choice; from that point on, they develop independently, and no communication is possible between them, so the people living in those worlds (and splitting along with them) may have no idea that this is going on.
		It may be possible to observe experimentally one of the predicted effects of Many-Worlds: quantum interference between adjacent worlds.
		It has even been suggested that the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle derives from this quantum interference; after you make a measurement (which of course splits the world), you can't be sure about the subsequent state of the observed system, because you can't be sure which world you are in.
	www.jar2.com /2/PUT/Many.htm (762 words)

	Natural History Museum: Africa: One Continent. Many Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Many Worlds." web site is designed to provide the museum-goer with a rich experience and to provide the educator with the knowledge and tools to bring the experience to the classroom.
		Many Worlds." web site is a collaborative project between The Field Museum, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the California African American Museum and the Armory Center for the Arts.
		Many Worlds." is made possible by Ford Motor Company.
	www.lam.mus.ca.us /africa (234 words)

	Origins PRC00-01: Planet Hunters on Trail of Worlds Smaller than Saturn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bruno made this bold proclamation without ever gazing at the heavens, basing his theory on Copernicus's revelation that the Earth was not the center of the cosmos.
		The distant worlds weren't discovered by direct methods of observation, such as snapping pictures of them.
		The observatory would photograph distant worlds, providing enough details for astronomers to glean clues about their nature.
	origins.stsci.edu /news/2000/01/background.html (1051 words)

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		This paper draws together many of the varied threads of evidential apologetics into a single argument as a debate between an atheist and a Christian.
		It is utterly in vain for some men to say that religion was invented by the subtlety and craft of a few to hold the simple folk in thrall by this device and that those very persons who originated the worship of God for others did not in the least believe that any God existed.
		Many Christians have shied away from the Big Bang theory because they have assumed that the billions of years involved would provide ample time for chance evolution to produce life.
	www.asa3.org /ASA/topics/Apologetics/PSCF6-98Snoke.html (10356 words)

	The Everett Interpretation
		If one of the systems is an observer and the interaction an observation then the effect of the observation is to split the observer into a number of copies, each copy observing just one of the possible results of a measurement and unaware of the other results and all its observer- copies.
		Loosely speaking a "world" is a complex, causally connected, partially or completely closed set of interacting sub-systems which don't significantly interfere with other, more remote, elements in the superposition.
		Worlds, or branches of the universal wavefunction, split when different components of a quantum superposition "decohere" from each other [7a], [7b], [10].
	www.geocities.com /capecanaveral/hangar/6929/manyworld.html (15605 words)

	Many Worlds Quantum Reality Solution: The Reluctant Messenger - Bible Codes Science Religion Spirituality God Allah ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Many Worlds Theory of Infinite Parallel Universes is the most satisfying scientific theory to explain the paradoxes inherent in Quantum Reality.
		Quantum Reality is the most successful scientific theory to ever explain the experimental data gathered by over a century of physics research.
		However, the conclusions are mind boggling to scientists because they want a nice logical explanation for the universe and quantum reality gives them a world of impreciseness and probability with data pointing to a single non-local field of energy composed of waveforms.
	reluctant-messenger.com /many_worlds.htm (16162 words)

	Quantum Theory of Immortality Menu
		The Everett 'Many Worlds Interpretation' of quantum physics postulates that that all systems evolve according to the Schrödinger equation, whereas the more conventional Copenhagen Interpretation says that this is true until the moment of observation, at which point the equation 'collapses'.
		According to various polls, MWI and the original 1927 'Copenhagen Interpretation' now have a similar share of the votes among physicists, but many of the 'big names' (Hawking, Feynman, Deutsch, Weinberg) are said to (Price, 1995) have subscribed to the MWI.
		If this is true, we can say that there are many universes (but a very tiny proportion of the multiverse) where you, dear reader, are a billion years old.
	www.higgo.com /quantum/qti.htm (1443 words)

	Many Worlds FAQ
		If one of the systems is an observer and the interaction an observation then the effect of the observation is to split the observer into a number of copies, each copy observing just one of the possible results of a measurement and unaware of the other results and all its observer-copies.
		Interactions between systems and their environments, including communication between different observers in the same world, transmits the correlations that induce local splitting or decoherence into non-interfering branches of the universal wavefunction.
		Everett tended to speak in terms of the measuring apparatus being split by the measurement, into non-interfering states, without presenting a detailed analysis of why a measuring apparatus was so effective at destroying interference effects after a measurement, although the topics of orthogonality, amplification and irreversibility were covered.
	wtimmins.tripod.com /lore/manyworlds.html (16319 words)

	rat haus reality, ratical branch: "There Are Many Worlds . . . "
		Insights and perceptions from a man whose life was dedicated to teaching the meaning and value of indigenous cultures in the modern world, a world he felt is in danger of losing its spiritual identity to technology, prejudice, empty values, and a lack of understanding of the interconnectedness of all life on earth.
		However, many students, particularly those who are visual and kinesthetic learners, have difficulty making sense of the abstract symbol systems used in reading and mathematics; and the arts provide alternative symbolic languages that involve students in concrete experiences that can help all students at every ability level to go far beyond mastery of "the basics".
		Inspite of the predominance of a rationalistic world view that separated reason from perception, as first articulated by Plato, artists have always sought knowledge and understanding of the world through the senses.
	www.ratical.org /many_worlds (2876 words)

	many worlds--rhythm
		Based on Many Worlds of Poetry, by Virginia Terris and Jacob Drachler.
		The patterned sounds of poetry-rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, assonance-are often referred to as the "music of poetry." This is a useful and suggestive phrase, but an impotant reservation must be kept in mind: poetry can never be the music of pure sound.
		Many modern poets have things to say that they feel can be said better in nonmetrical rhythms.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pcraddoc/mwrhythm.htm (1656 words)

	Many Worlds
		"This new world view of a universe full of life, produced by cosmic evolution, I call 'the biological universe.' The central assumptions of the biological universe are the planetary systems are common, that life originates wherever conditions are favorable, and that evolution culminates with intelligence [p.
		But Einstein's God 'appears as the physical world itself, with its infinitely marvelous structure operation at atomic level with the beauty of a craftsman's wristwatch, and a stellar level with the majesty of a massive cyclotron.' [p.
		The result is Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life & the Theological Implications edited by Steven Dick and containing essays by scientists and theologians.
	wislit.home.att.net /scirel/alien.htm (5250 words)

	David Deutsch’s Many Worlds
		Our universe is just one of many, linked together by the astounding phenomena of the quantum world.
		A growing number of physicists, myself included, are convinced that the thing we call ‘the universe’ — namely space, with all the matter and energy it contains — is not the whole of reality.
		When a quantum computer delivers the output of such a computation, we shall know that those intermediate results must have been computed somewhere, because they were needed to produce the right answer.
	www.qubit.org /people/david/Articles/Frontiers.html (1114 words)

	How Many Worlds? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		There is no law against the creation of many worlds; however, there are some very reasonable stipulations.
		Thus there would be a concentration of creative effort on the quality of some primary world.
		If this is somebody's show, I think we can be reasonably confident that it is the main show, it is the big-top, just about the only show in town.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /dantsmith/next15.htm (240 words)

	MANY WORLDS PORTAL
		Here you will find many worlds both real and imaginary.
		You will still find all you will want to know of the Worlds that I have invented.
		This section will be replaced with the standard search box you have come to expect from all sites in the MAD.DEN Web set.
	worlds.bravepages.com (64 words)

	Time Travel Portal :: View topic - Many Worlds & Parallel Universes
		Many worlds and the emergence of probability in quantum mechanics
		The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Many Worlds or Many Words?
		Time travel paradoxes, path integrals, and the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
	timetravelportal.com /viewtopic.php?t=288 (360 words)

	Deneb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Several worlds have RICE papers or other write-ups written about them.
		Consult the individual subsectors for lists of those worlds.
		As part of Chris Griffen's Manifest Destiny campaign, the subsectors of Deneb that were abandoned for the Quarantine were included as a separate pdf file.
	www.panpub.com /traveller/sectors/deneb (113 words)

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