Many-Worlds Interpretations Can Not Imply 'Quantum Immortality'
Quantum Physics
2011-02-23 v3
Abstract
The fallacy that the many worlds intepretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics implies certain survival in quantum Russian roulette-like situations (the 'Quantum Suicide' (QS) thought experiment) has become common enough that it is now necessary to publicly debunk this belief despite the risk of further publicizing it. 'Quantum Immortality' is an extension of the QS Fallacy (QSF) with some additional unlikely assumptions. The QS/QI ideas are examined here and shown to be false.
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@article{arxiv.0902.0187,
title = {Many-Worlds Interpretations Can Not Imply 'Quantum Immortality'},
author = {Jacques Mallah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.0187},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages; clarified discussion of the Born Rule and of the QSF