7.1
Manifold Worlds
The manyworld interpretation is
a totally different way of
solving the same problem.
Everett's
Relative-State-Interpretation
(H. Everett III: 'Relative
State' Formulation of Quantum
Mechanics. Rev.Mod.Phys. 29
(1957) 454.), is usually called
Many-Worlds Interpretation. Here
all branches of the wave
function exist at all times.
According to this
interpretation, instead of a
superposition of states that
collapse on observation,
whenever numerous viable
possibilities exist, the world
actually splits into many
worlds, one world for each
different possibility.
In each of those branches one
component of the wave function
is realized i.e.
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.
The observer also exists in each
branch in a different state and
it therefore also split. The
concrete "I" awareness exists in
all branches of the universe so
each observer sees only that
aspect of the wave function in
that branch.
Everything that can
happen does happen, somewhere in
one of the universe. Thus
Everett considers the
wavefunction as a real object
like any classical deterministic
observable. Thus Many-world is a
return to the classical,
pre-quantum view of the universe
in which all the mathematical
certainties of the classical
physical theory.
Many-worlds comprises of two
assumptions and some
consequences.
http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm
1) The Objective Reality
assumption: That the
wavefunction does not merely
encode the all the information
about an object, but has an
observer-independent objective
existence and actually is
the object. For a
non-relativistic N-particle
system the wavefunction is a
complex-valued field in a 3-N
dimensional space.
2) The
deterministicassumption:
The wavefunction obeys the
empirically derived standard
linear deterministic wave
equations at all times. The
observer plays no special role
in the theory and, consequently,
there is no collapse of the
wavefunction.
Let me take a
specific example. The problem is
presented in the famous cat in a
box paradox.
7.2
Schroedinger’s Cat in the Box
Paradox
http://www.emr.hibu.no/lars/eng/cat/
http://www.qtc.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cat.html
"
A cat is penned up in a steel
chamber, along with the
following diabolical device
(which must be secured against
direct interference by the cat):
in a Geiger counter there is a
tiny bit of radioactive
substance, so small that perhaps
in the course of one hour one of
the atoms decays, but also, with
equal probability, perhaps none;
if it happens, the counter tube
discharges and through a relay
releases a hammer which shatters
a small flask of hydrocyanic
acid. If one has left this
entire system to itself for an
hour, one would say that the cat
still lives if meanwhile no atom
has decayed. The first atomic
decay would have poisoned it.
The Psi function for the entire
system would express this by
having in it the living and the
dead cat (pardon the expression)
mixed or smeared out in equal
parts. It is typical of these
cases that an indeterminacy
originally restricted to the
atomic domain becomes
transformed into macroscopic
indeterminacy, which can then be
resolved by direct observation.
That prevents us from so naively
accepting as valid a "blurred
model" for representing reality.
In itself it would not embody
anything unclear or
contradictory. There is a
difference between a shaky or
out-of-focus photograph and a
snapshot of clouds and fog
banks." -- Erwin Schrödinger
If
the nucleus decays the cat will
die. In a quantum mechanical
description this might yield a
superposition of a living
and a dead cat :
|y> = 2-½(|yliving>
+ |ydead>)
Since the cat’s property of life
can have only two possible
states - a living or a dead cat
state. |y> can have either |yliving>
or |ydead> if the cat
is observed. Problems with this
interpretation are:
1) What is the physical meaning
of the Schrödinger cat state
(sometimes called a state of
"suspended animation")?
ii) How can a mere observation
bring about the projection to
either |yliving> or |ydead>?
What would happen to the cat if
no observation were performed at
all? Will the cat be live and
dead at the same time?
The Quantum Mechanical answer is
that we will never know until we
make that measurement.
If we could observe the
superimposed virtual states we
would have had the situation
of tables and chairs being
'both here and there' and cats
being 'both alive and dead' (Polkinghorne
J.C. (1990) The Quantum
World. London: Penguin
Books.) Objects would have had
no definite shape of properties.
Our choices would be without
definiteness and answers will be
both yes and no. That would
leave us into a phantom world of
non-reality without space or
time.
This Experiment
is parallel to the case of
Salvation of Individual
directly. Suppose that the
gospel is presented to a person
at a particular point in time.
He can make a choice of yes in
which case he is saved. He can
also make a choice of no in
which case he is condemned
during any time in his lifetime.
How can we make sure that he is
saved or not saved? Until the
box is opened – until the
judgment when wheat and chaff
are separated we will have no
means of knowing.
Thus the
entire world is split, quite
rapidly, into a host of mutually
unobservable but equally real
worlds. All the possible
outcomes of a quantum
interaction are realized. The
wave function, instead of
collapsing at the moment of
observation, carries on evolving
in a deterministic fashion,
embracing all possibilities
embedded within it. All outcomes
exist simultaneously but do not
interfere further with each
other. Each branch is completely
independent of the others, and
no communication can take place
between branches.
This experiment was probably
first proposed by Jesus in his
parable of the tares.
Mat
13:24 Another parable he put
before them, saying, "The
kingdom of heaven may be
compared to a man who sowed good
seed in his field;
Mat
13:25 but while men were
sleeping, his enemy came and
sowed weeds among the wheat, and
went away.
Mat
13:26 So when the plants came
up and bore grain, then the
weeds appeared also.
Mat
13:27 And the servants of the
householder came and said to
him, 'Sir, did you not sow good
seed in your field? How then has
it weeds?'
Mat
13:28 He said to them, 'An
enemy has done this.' The
servants said to him, 'Then do
you want us to go and gather
them?'
Mat
13:29 But he said, 'No; lest in
gathering the weeds you root up
the wheat along with them.
Mat 13:30 Let
both grow together until the
harvest; and at harvest time I
will tell the reapers, Gather
the weeds first and bind them in
bundles to be burned, but gather
the wheat into my barn.'"
In the Many World
Interpretation it is explained
as follows: Assuming that the
chances of making them are 50-50
the universe splits into two. In
one universe he is saved and in
the other he is condemned. This
obviously allows for the total
freedom of will of man, and at
the same time allows for total
predestination. Since we the
observer can only be in one
branch we can see either the
person as saved or as condemned
because we cannot see the other
world. But for God who sees both
branches has allowed for the
free will and at the same time
his eternal decrees are also not
violated.
7.3 Involvement of the
Observer.- an alternative way of
looking at it.- Creation through
sentient involvement.
The eigenstates of the Quantum
theory and the assumption that
any physical system remains in a
superposed state of all
possibilities until it interacts
with the mind of an observer can
be looked upon from another
perspective. As soon as an
observer's mind makes contact
with a superposed system, all
the numerous possibilities
collapse into one particular
actuality. As soon a creation
of personality capable of making
an observation came into
existence the act of observation
by this mind chooses and causes
the entire superposed multiverse
to collapse immediately into one
of its numerous alternatives.
Thus the choice of Adam decided
and actually created the
universe where we live in. From
then on, each individual creates
and recreates the world we live
in.
If we
read the Genesis story of the
fall we notice that God did not
determine or curse man or the
cosmos. Instead the verse reads
thus:
Gen 3:6
So when the woman saw that the
tree was good for food, and that
it was a delight to the eyes,
and that the tree was to be
desired to make one wise, she
took of its fruit and ate; and
she also gave some to her
husband, and he ate.
Gen 3:7
Then the eyes of both were
opened, and they knew that they
were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together and made
themselves aprons.
By
the act of eating the fruit of
the forbidden tree, they all of
a sudden realized a totally
different world of existence.
Gen 3:8
And they heard the sound of the
LORD God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day, and the
man and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the LORD
God among the trees of the
garden.
Gen 3:9
But the LORD God called to the
man, and said to him, "Where are
you?"
Gen 3:10
And he said, "I heard the sound
of thee in the garden, and I was
afraid, because I was naked; and
I hid myself."
Gen 3:11
He said, "Who told you that you
were naked? Have you eaten of
the tree of which I commanded
you not to eat?"
Gen 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom
thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me fruit of the tree, and I
ate."
Gen 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the
woman, "What is this that you
have done?" The woman said, "The
serpent beguiled me, and I ate."
Gen 3:14
The LORD God said to the
serpent, "Because you have done
this, cursed are you above all
cattle, and above all wild
animals; upon your belly you
shall go, and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
The changes that
took place after the act was
“because you have done this”
indicating that the change was
because of the act. The same
concept follows all the changes
that occurred in this world.
Gen 3:15
I will put enmity between you
and the woman, and between your
seed and her seed; he shall
bruise your head, and you shall
bruise his heel."
Gen 3:16
To the woman he said, "I
will greatly multiply your pain
in childbearing; in pain you
shall bring forth children,
yet your desire shall be for
your husband, and he shall
rule over you."
Only the pain in the
childbearing is given by God.
Gen 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because
you have listened to the
voice of your wife, and have
eaten of the tree of which I
commanded you, 'You shall not
eat of it,' cursed is the
ground because of you; in
toil you shall eat of it all
the days of your life;
Gen 3:18
thorns and thistles it shall
bring forth to you; and you
shall eat the plants of the
field.
Gen 3:19
In the sweat of your face you
shall eat bread till you return
to the ground, for out of it
you were taken; you are dust,
and to dust you shall return."
Now
the sentient being who collapsed
the superposition determined the
actualization of the laws of
physics. Can we go back on this
choice. No. Instead it has to be
redirected to a redeemed state
by another choice in the time
development of the state. God
provides the options in vast
profusion. We make the choices.
Yes, all that ever was, ever
will be, ever could have been,
and ever might still be - are
included within God. Their
actualization as experiences
depends upon the choices made by
sentient beings.
"So man is priest of the
creation through his power to
give thanks and to offer the
creation back to God; and he is
king of creation through his
power to mould and fashion, to
connect and diversify."
Bishop Kallistos Ware, THE
ORTHODOX WAY
Paul makes this idea clear in
his thesis on the redemption of
the whole creation.
Rom 8:21
because the creation itself will
be set free from its bondage to
decay and obtain the glorious
liberty of the children of God.
Rom 8:22
We know that the whole creation
has been groaning in travail
together until now;
Rom 8:23
and not only the creation, but
we ourselves, who have the first
fruits of the Spirit, groan
inwardly as we wait for adoption
as sons, the redemption of our
bodies.
Rom 8:24
For in this hope we were saved.
The principle of incarnation
itself is to be looked upon on
this ground. The presence of
Jesus in human form becomes
absolutely essential for the
redemption of creation, since it
is the sentients that creates
the cosmos of their existence
and only my changing the conduct
and thought pattern of these
sentients the recreation can
take place.
7.4 Immortality, Resurrection,
Continuity of life
James
Higgo points out that MWI may
really imply the immortality of
Souls by using the Quantum
Suicide experiment as given by
Tegmark:
In
this suicide experiment we have
a gun, which has a chance of
firing 50 percent of the time
its trigger is pulled. If it
does not trigger the bullet it
will only make a click sound.
Now suppose this gun is placed
on the forehead of the
experimenter and he continue to
pull the trigger. If the Many
World Interpretation is correct
she will hear only audible
clicks and not one single fire.
This is because she will not be
there in the alternate world
where she had died. Others in
50% of the worlds will notice
that he died. But for him he
still lives. The moral: One
cannot commit suicide at all.
This is true not only of
suicides but for every form of
death. You are immortal. You
will never die.
But
the interpretation should not
stop there. Life is eternal and
will go on. But your choices
make a difference in the quality
of your eternal life. If you
make bad choices you will bring
upon yourself immense suffering
along with all the rest of the
cosmos This will bring about a
separation of the wheat and the
chaff. One group goes from bad
to worse and others from good to
better. There are others who can
turn around one group to
another. The large number of
worlds allows for it all. If
you continue to choose wrongly
it will lead to more and more
decay and suffering. This is
hell indeed. If you choose
wisely and continue to choose
wisely you will live eternally
in heaven with others who did
the right choices.
Mat 13:28
He said to them, 'An enemy has
done this.' The servants said to
him, 'Then do you want us to go
and gather them?'
Mat 13:29
But he said, 'No; lest in
gathering the weeds you root up
the wheat along with them.
Mat 13:30
Let both grow together until the
harvest; and at harvest time I
will tell the reapers, Gather
the weeds first and bind them in
bundles to be burned, but gather
the wheat into my barn.'"
Heb 6:12
so that you may not be sluggish,
but imitators of those who
through faith and patience
inherit the promises.
Mat 13:43
Then the righteous will shine
like the sun in the kingdom of
their Father.
Heaven and Hell depend on our
choice. Choose wisely, Choose
this day.
Mat
25:46 And they will go away
into eternal punishment, but the
righteous into eternal life."
Joh
5:24 Truly, truly, I say to
you, he who hears my word and
believes him who sent me, has
eternal life; he does not come
into judgment, but has passed
from death to life.
Rom
2:7 to those who by patience in
well-doing seek for glory and
honor and immortality, he will
give eternal life;
Rom 5:21 so that, as sin
reigned in death, grace also
might reign through
righteousness to eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:22 But now that you have
been set free from sin and have
become slaves of God, the return
you get is sanctification and
its end, eternal life.
Deu 30:19 I call heaven
and earth to witness against you
this day, that I have set before
you life and death, blessing and
curse; therefore choose life,
that you and your descendants
may live.
Even
though a person may not be aware
of it, we are judging ourselves
every time. There may be a
white throne judgement at
critical junctures of
transformations. But the
continuous judging take place
every day .
Joh 3:18
He who believes in him is not
condemned; he who does not
believe is condemned already,
because he has not believed in
the name of the only Son of God.
In
this concept immortality of the
soul is a continuation of the
living and not reincarnation.
The person is not really aware
of any transition into the
worlds or of transformation.
The person continues in the same
body, and if at all anything is
changed in the body it is
resurrection of the same body.
The body may have transformed
from one dimension into
another. But the same person
lives on. Even if there is a
gap in the awareness (that is
even if the person died), it
will not be perceived by the
person. A soul sleep is
perfectly permissible. The
person is dead as far as the
alternate world is concerned.
But the person lives on in
another world with the same type
of body probably with the
characteristics of the matter of
that world and is not aware of
any time lag. A resurrection of
the body is also perfectly in
accordance with the MWI. Thus
while it negates all forms of
reincarnation it supports
resurrection.
Mat 22:32
'I am the God of Abraham, and
the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob'? He is not God of the
dead, but of the living."
Joh 5:28
Do not marvel at this; for the
hour is coming when all who are
in the tombs will hear his voice
Joh 5:29
and come forth, those who have
done good, to the resurrection
of life, and those who have done
evil, to the resurrection of
judgment.
The
salvation process is not in the
continuity of life, but in the
quality of life. Thus in the
declaration of the purpose of
incarnation Jesus says.
Joh 10:10
The thief comes only to steal
and kill and destroy; I came
that they may have life, and
have it abundantly.
It is
possible for the person to have
a time gap with continuity of
life without any memory of such
a gap. This would mean that it
is possible for people to die
and resurrect and live at the
point in their life where they
left out in a transformed
resurrected body in another
world. While this totally
negates reincarnation it
supports the existence of ages
after ages. Every point in the
age ends up with a judgment and
transference into another
world. The rewards and
punishments are an ongoing
process and not necessarily a
sharp defined judgment although
such intermittent judgment can
take place.
Reference: Does the
'many-worlds' interpretation
imply immortality?
http://www.higgo.com/quantum/qti.htm
Evangelical Interpretation of
Many Worlds
Hell – the self centered
isolation among a throng of
individuals or Heaven – a loving
community. These are the only
two choices. The choice of
annihilation is not there, for
we are eternal beings
There are two ways of life, you
choose - it's your choice!
1
Peter 1:3-5 "Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who according to His
great mercy has caused us to be
born again to a living hope
through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead, to
obtain an inheritance which is
imperishable and undefiled and
will not fade away, reserved in
heaven for you, who are
protected by the power of God
through faith for a salvation
ready to be revealed in the last
time."
Matthew 7:13-16
Enter ye in at
the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that
leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat:
Because strait is the gate, and
narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and few there be that
find it.
Beware of false prophets, which
come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening
wolves. Ye shall know them by
their fruits. Do men gather
grapes of thorns, or figs of
thistles?
A Kaballistic Interpretation
of Many Worlds
The Kabala is an ancient Hebrew
mystical system of thought. It
is a symbolic representation of
the path taken by every human
being in their journey to
eternity. It is usually
represented by a tree with
interconnecting branches. At
the top of it is the Kether –
the crown - to which man can
attain and partake of the
divinity of Ain Sof – the
unknown God beyond. There are
left branches and right
branches. You can wander off
and get lost in the outer
darkness probably never to
return and reach the Kether.
But there are an infinitely
paths, if one can retrace the
state and interweave from the
bottom to top. As we take our
decisions we branch off into one
branch to another. With a clear
mind and direction of motion it
is easier to climb directly to
the top. Without direction one
can be totally lost in the outer
end. Life never ends. But we
can be lost for ever. In a
simplified model we have ten
sefiroth and 32 pathways to
reach the top.
Many-Minds
Interpretation
The
Many Minds Interpretation of
Quantum Mechanics", by Michael
Lockwood, British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science, 1996,
Vol. 47, No. 2.
http://www.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mjd1014/summary.html
Many-minds interpretation
proposes, that an infinity of
separate minds or mental states
be associated with each single
brain state. When the single
physical brain state is split
into a quantum superposition by
a measurement the associated
infinity of minds are thought of
as differentiating rather than
splitting.
In
Everett's many-worlds theory,
each ``world'' was a way in
which an ``observer'' could be
correlated with the rest of the
universe, but Everett did not
analyse the nature of observers.
Here the ``observer'' is taken
to be something which has a
``mind'', and different
possibilities correspond to
different experiences of
individual observers. For each
observer, life is like a game of
chance in which at any moment, a
finite range of possibilities
can occur; each possibility
having its own associated
probability. It is essential
that these choices are finite.
It means that the universe is
essentially digital in structure
and continuous. It need not
necessary to be an yes or no
choice i.e. a two path choice.
The state of mind of the person
is defined by the path taken by
the mind to reach this point
which includes all experiences.
This makes sure that the mind
state is actually an entangled
state with all the universe of
experience it went through. The
mind may be thought of as having
multiple layers. When this
state get entangled with a
different state vector – the
external world, together they
produced an entangled state
vector. It is this that produce
the multiverse. It can be
compared to statistical
stochastic process studies like
the one below
The state then depends on the
path. Having come across a
choice situation the experience
produce a probability of
selection based on the past
experience.
According
to the proposed theory, the time
which appears to pass as we
live, is not some absolute
observer-independent time, but
rather is an aspect of our
structure as individual
observers. Although our
manifestations are in spacetime,
our consciousness is not. The
patterns of information by which
we are characterized are
geometrical patterns, but the
geometry is abstract. The
stochastic processes of which we
are conscious are processes with
their own time. The arrow of
time is the arrow of these
processes. Time is thus defined
only in terms of cause effect
relationship to define a
sequence.
This proposition is very much
like the Jewish multisoul
concept. The Egyptian, the
Greek, and the Chinese and the
Kabbalists conceive man as a
multiplicity of spiritual
principles, which separate after
death and each go their own way,
rather than as a single "soul"
or "spirit".
The Kabalistic traditions gives
various layers of human
consciousness with different
dimensional attributes. They
number of soul parts vary with
the traditions. They exist at
various dimensions of
existence. Some of these are:
Nefesh - the lower part, or
animal part, of the soul.
Ruach – part which has the moral
virtues and the ability to
distinguish between good and
evil.
Neshamah - the higher soul, or
super-soul separates man from
all other life forms with its
consciousness of God.
Chayyah - The part of the soul
that allows one to have an
awareness of the divine life
force itself;
Yehidad - the highest plane of
the soul, in which one can
achieve as full a union with God
as is possible.
Ruach HaKodesh - a state of the
soul that makes prophecy
possible.
Neshamah Yeseira - The
supplemental soul that a Jew
experiences on Shabbat.
Neshoma Kedosha, related to the
study and fulfillment of the
Torah commandments.
Evidently not all these souls
are in all men. But all these
are acquirable depending on the
experience they go through. It
is more like the process of
Sanctification.
We
have a picture of these in the
Seven Spirits of God, which
actually is one Spirit with
seven layers.
In
the Jewish mystic teaching on
death these parts distribute
themselves in various universes.
While one goes to purgatory to
be purified, the other spirit
goes to heaven, and some even
return to earth. Again Kabala
does not speak of these
happening at the time of death,
because for them life is a
continuous process and body is
not considered important at all.
Sleep time between such
occurrences is permissible
because time is considered as
only a sequence of cause effect
events. These concepts are
taught only in some mystical
traditions and should not be
considered as a general theology
of the Jewish religion.
