The Case for the Everett Multiverse

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07706v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:49:40 GMT
• Title: The Case for the Everett Multiverse
• Abstract summary: This is a draft of a chapter for the forthcoming emphBlackwell Companion to Philosophy and the Multiverse.<n>I give a non-technical presentation of the argument that quantum mechanics, in the form in which it is currently used, needs to be understood in many-worlds terms.
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• Abstract: I give a non-technical presentation of the argument that quantum mechanics, in the form in which it is currently used, needs to be understood in many-worlds (Everettian) terms; the alternatives that have been discussed are at present not able to reproduce the full empirical content of the theory. This is a draft of a chapter for the forthcoming \emph{Blackwell Companion to Philosophy and the Multiverse (Klaas Kraay and Daniel Rubio, eds.) }

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