The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics — Season 1, Episode 13: Testing the Many-Worlds Interpretation
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 24 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
Address another objection to the Many-Worlds Interpretation: its testability. This refers to philosopher Karl Popper's famous falsifiability criterion, which discounts any theory that can't in principle be proven false. The proliferation of worlds that can't ever be observed might seem to qualify Many-Worlds as unfalsifiable, but Professor Carroll shows that it is testable where it counts.
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More episodes from Season 1
- E1Why Suppose There's More Than One World?
- E2The Classical Physics World That Never Was
- E3Quantum Worlds Start With Waves and Particles
- E4A Wave Function to Describe Particles
- E5Copenhagen Says the Wave Function Collapses
- E6Is the Wave Function Real?
- E7Uncertainty in Action With Spin and Qubits
- E8Quantum Entanglement and Action at a Distance
- E9Entanglement Leads to Many Worlds
- E10Decoherence Explains Branching Worlds
- E11How Entanglement Powers Quantum Computers
- E12Too Many Worlds! Five Objections Answered