06 Apr '16 16:45>
Originally posted by apathistThe universes do not 'pop into existence' and you don't have a sort of primary universe you call THIS universe. It is more like a tree where at each quantum event there is a branch with two ways (not a trunk and a branch popping into existence). A better analogy would be this universe splitting into two.
Yes. That's the Occam's Razor objection. The math is outrageous: how many probabilistic quantum events, with how many possible outcomes, occur every Planck moment in a single atom? Times how many atoms in our known universe? That's a lot of universes popping into existence every second - and each one exponentially starts spawning more.
The point of this ...[text shortened]... rovide a deterministic explanation for the probabilistic outcomes which occur in THIS universe.
An even better way to see it is as all a single continuum and we are just a slice through that continuum from the past until the present (but our future includes many slices).
Its just another dimension. The objections that it is complicated are similar to flat-world inhabitants denying the existence of 3D. Sure, one would want proof of the third dimension before accepting it, but the fact that the maths is harder doesn't rule it out.