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There is something not to like about every interpretation, and this extravagant multiplication of worlds is the thing not to like about MWI. However, until you have a solid understanding of the mathematics behind quantum mechanics there's little reason to pay attention to MWI - you need the math to understand the problem that it does solve. While you're learning that math you will be better off working with the minimal statistical interpretation, also known as "shut up and calculate" - the thing not to like about that interpretation is that it refuses to answer your questions about what is "really" happening under the covers, and you don't need that to learn and understand the math.Viopia said:Thanks for the link. I particularly like the "Many Worlds" (parallel universe level 3) interpretation which seems to suggest the universe could keep splitting trillions of times per second. Really!
(If it were a half-century ago, the advice might be to work with a collapse interpretation. These are easy to reason about and will easily see you through your first year or so of study, but are confusing when applied to some more modern theoretical and experimental developments).
Without the math that's not an idea, it's just a bunch of sciency-sounding words strung together to produce something that sounds cool. However, your intuition is steering you in the right general direction here - the word "particle" as used in quantum physics means something very different from the ordinary English-language notion of a small thing moving around in space. So you can reasonably be thinking that there "are no particles" in the ordinary English-language sense of the word... but for a proper understanding of what quantum particles are you'll need quantum electrodynamics for EM waves and quantum field theory. These were developed during the 1940s and 1950s and unfortunately are far beyond the scope of a B-level thread.Don't you think it is more likely that there are no particles, only waves of energy, and the transfers of energy between EM waves and standing waves imitate particles at their points of interaction making the influence of the past unecessary?
Many posts back I suggested two books. Have you tried them yet?