Falsifiable Tests for Theories that Govern How an Individual's Conscious
Experience Traverses Everett's ''Many-Worlds'' Multiverse
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08820v1
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 01:44:09 GMT
- Title: Falsifiable Tests for Theories that Govern How an Individual's Conscious
Experience Traverses Everett's ''Many-Worlds'' Multiverse
- Authors: Steven Sagona-Stophel
- Abstract summary: We propose a set of simple quantum optics experiments that test for an entirely new domain of physical laws.
These experiments imply an exception to the Born rule in a proposed ''observer-specific'' reference frame.
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- Abstract: We propose a set of simple quantum optics experiments that test for an
entirely new domain of physical laws that govern how an individual's conscious
experience traverses the multiverse within Everett's many worlds interpretation
of quantum mechanics. These experiments imply an exception to the Born rule in
a proposed ''observer-specific'' reference frame. These experiments must be
done by you, the reader. If it is performed by anyone else, other than you, the
reader, you will observe that the person performing the experiment will observe
an outcome that is not special, interesting, or different from what is already
known about quantum mechanics. To the best of our knowledge, this would be the
first ever modern experiment that is only meaningful if the experiment is
performed by you, the reader, and cannot be inferred from the results of
another experimenter. Therefore, since each individual must perform this test
on his or her own, we outline a set of real experiments that can be easily
performed such that as many people as possible can individually verify this for
themselves. We do not know or specify what specific physical laws exist within
this ''observer-specific'' domain, but come up with a number of different tests
to cover as many theories as possible.
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