Gregorech@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agoIf I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.message-squaremessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1166
arrow-up1166message-squareIf I subscribe to the many worlds theory, every time I buy a lottery ticket one of me wins.Gregorech@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square70fedilink
minus-squareadmiralpone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoYour intuition is correct here. OP is wrong. An infinite set of branches of the wavefunction does not necessarily imply that everything you can imagine must happen somewhere in that wavefunction.
minus-squarethenofootcanman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoBut surely the chance of “me” winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of times
minus-squarerockstarpirate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.
minus-squarerockstarpirate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/
Your intuition is correct here. OP is wrong. An infinite set of branches of the wavefunction does not necessarily imply that everything you can imagine must happen somewhere in that wavefunction.
But surely the chance of “me” winning the lottery at least once is 1 if I play an infinite number of times
I think that’s only true if the lottery numbers you end up with are truly the result of random selection in infinite universes.
Is the lottery not random?
I think it’s one of those “probably close enough to random” type things. I found this: https://quantumbase.com/sse/lottery/