The Many Worlds Theory - Sir Anthony Leggett

Sir Anthony Leggett discusses the intriguing Many Worlds Theory during one of his lectures at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. Leggett, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, is the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Distinguished Research Chair at the Institute for Quantum Computing.

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My interpretation of the many worlds theory is not that the parallel worlds exist in this reality, but that the universe moves in cycles of big bang to big crunch to big bang, and that over all of these different variations of the universe, everything that can possibly happen has already happened an infinite amount of times, and will continue to happen an infinite amount of times.

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I confess I can't see why a rational agent would agree to go through the experiment if, continuing as they are without it, their chances of survival and happiness seem better than the nine out of ten offered (weighted too against the promised reward). It seems most of these wager-style thought experiments come of a predilection for what reality ought to be.