I do plan on multiple threads. The MC had a psychologically and physically traumatic event after years down the "Cephs from another timeline" conspiracy rabbit hole that he now doesn't remember, and, without too much irrelevant detail, dreamed of a marriage with Biologist when really he was...
Other planets aren't involved. It's an alternate Earth, a different world/timeline or set of them, as in the MWI, that diverged from ours 500-700 (there might be different estimates) million years ago. I want to be able to say "Dr. Sam is working on x while characters A and C are exploring the...
I have a story idea involving MWI and a world where the evolutionary branches that would produce octopuses and mammals split 500+ million years ago. A group of conspiracy theorists think cephalopods became the dominant species in some worlds and want to "visit," and it might be possible. I want...
I meant to type something like "I figured it [multi-quoting] out."
I don't really understand decoherence, which, I gather, begins the "split" that's finalized when decoherence completes. I saw it compared to untangling. Would you please explain? And thanks for the bit about interference.
(Mods, I posted a lot on the MWI yesterday, but this seemed different enough to warrant its own thread. If you disagree, I apologize.)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says the following in its article on the Many Worlds Interpretation:
Is this backed by science? It reminds me of...