Re: Domain name: That's bias as in "cognitive bias" not "racial bias".
OK, so you're a physicist, and you know that, when the dust settles and the true theory whatever-it-may-be is found, it's going to have multiple worlds in it, rather than violating relativity.
At what point, in your opinion, should physicists go ahead and announce this fact to the public as the official verdict of Science?
Make no mistake, quantum gibberish has trickle-down negative effects on the rest of the planet - people watching "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and losing hope in Reason. It may not hurt them any less than disbelief in natural selection, on average.
At what point should physicists get together and say: "Oops! Werner Heisenberg was wrong about the special role of consciousness. We now know this for sure. Everyone stop reading 'The Secret'."?
It's easy to say "Don't be too emphatic about that truth there" when you're a physicist and you can see the arguments clear as sunlight. If we were all evolutionary biologists we wouldn't need emphatic defenses of evolution, either.
I'm not a physicist, but I had studied physics for five years and I from what I have seen most physicists certainly wouldn't agree with you that the many-worlds interpretation is "the official verdict of Science." For the most part, physicists don't really care, because the all the results that can be tested experimentally remain the same no matter whether you talk about many worlds, about the wave function collapse or about something else entirely. This said, the majority of physicists who care at all choose to think in terms of the Copenhagen interpretation, which, as much as you may not like it, is simple and lets you get straight to the point. Which by the way does not imply that they think relativity is violated or that consciousness has any special status. If you want to consider relativity then the regular quantum mechanics is probably not the right framework anyway, since it is non-relativistic. What you want is the quantum field theory.
OK, so you're a physicist, and you know that, when the dust settles and the true theory whatever-it-may-be is found, it's going to have multiple worlds in it, rather than violating relativity.
At what point, in your opinion, should physicists go ahead and announce this fact to the public as the official verdict of Science?
Make no mistake, quantum gibberish has trickle-down negative effects on the rest of the planet - people watching "What the Bleep Do We Know?" and losing hope in Reason. It may not hurt them any less than disbelief in natural selection, on average.
At what point should physicists get together and say: "Oops! Werner Heisenberg was wrong about the special role of consciousness. We now know this for sure. Everyone stop reading 'The Secret'."?
It's easy to say "Don't be too emphatic about that truth there" when you're a physicist and you can see the arguments clear as sunlight. If we were all evolutionary biologists we wouldn't need emphatic defenses of evolution, either.