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A Nearly Forgotten Man of Many Universes

The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III, by Peter Byrne

John Derbyshire •ï¿½December 9, 2010

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Quantum mechanics (hereinafter QM) is famously odd. As Peter Byrne notes in this book: The measurement problem is especially knotty. Down in the subatomic realm, each of the particles that constitute matter is smeared out over a volume of space in a manner described mathematically by a "wave function." When an observer interacts with this... Read More

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