With most other experts, Frank Tipler in what is now known as quantum cosmology, he adopts the ‘Many-Worlds’ approach to quantum theory.
That’s to say, he rejects the ‘Copenhagen’ view, according to which events develop fuzzily until observers force them, by the act of observation, to take, absolutely unpredictably, one or other of the theoretically available forms.
Many-Worlds Quantum Theory instead has the events taking all those forms, in different branches of a branching cosmos.
For Tipler, observers branch like everything else. The ‘you’ of the present minute, merely one among hugely many versions into which the ‘you’ of the previous minute has branched, may observe a radium atom decaying and a cat dying of cyanide, while the ‘you’ in another branch detects no decay and sees a contented cat.
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank Tipler
That’s to say, he rejects the ‘Copenhagen’ view, according to which events develop fuzzily until observers force them, by the act of observation, to take, absolutely unpredictably, one or other of the theoretically available forms.
Many-Worlds Quantum Theory instead has the events taking all those forms, in different branches of a branching cosmos.
For Tipler, observers branch like everything else. The ‘you’ of the present minute, merely one among hugely many versions into which the ‘you’ of the previous minute has branched, may observe a radium atom decaying and a cat dying of cyanide, while the ‘you’ in another branch detects no decay and sees a contented cat.
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead by Frank Tipler
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