An Elementary Proof That Everett's Quantum Multiverse Is Nonlocal: Bell-Locality and Branch-Symmetry in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07794v1
• Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:15:56 GMT
• Title: An Elementary Proof That Everett's Quantum Multiverse Is Nonlocal: Bell-Locality and Branch-Symmetry in the Many-Worlds Interpretation
• Authors: Aur\'elien Drezet
• Abstract summary: Everett's many-worlds or multiverse theory is an attempt to find an alternative to the standard Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Here, we show that this is not the case and debunk the contradictions by analyzing in detail the Greenberger--Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) nonlocality theorem.
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• Abstract: Everett's many-worlds or multiverse theory is an attempt to find an alternative to the standard Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Everett's theory is often claimed to be local in the Bell sense. Here, we show that this is not the case and debunk the contradictions by analyzing in detail the Greenberger--Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ) nonlocality theorem. We discuss and compare different notions of locality often mixed in the Everettian literature and try to explain the nature of the confusion. We conclude with a discussion of probability and statistics in the many-worlds theory and stress that the strong symmetry existing between branches in the theory prohibits the definition of probability and that the theory cannot recover statistics. The only way out from this contradiction is to modify the theory by adding hidden variables \`a la Bohm and, as a consequence, the new theory is explicitly Bell-nonlocal.

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