(April 29, 2012 at 4:48 am)BrotherMagnet Wrote: Yes, you could describe the universe as a wave function itself. A wave function describes the state a system of matter/energy is in and the system could be the entire universe. I never disagreed on this point but the system is also made up of subsystems. You could say the fact the universal waveform has never collapsed is that there is no outside observer, disproving God with this interpretation.
So you could say that before awareness arose the universe was pure chance and probability. Anything could just pop into and out of existence at any time.
Yes, I find the many worlds interpretation more interesting just because of the vast amount of possibilities , but I don't think it's more or less plausible than most of the rest.
Besides my joke poster above and a mathematical one, show me a true collapse of a wave function. BTW, the wave function of the system is the wave function of the universe (more aptly named the universal wave function). There really is no sharply defined way to define the wave function of a subsystem (partial system). See the work of Hawking and Hartle on the Wheeler–DeWitt equation.
