WHAT MAKES A QUANTUM PHYSICS BELIEF BELIEVABLE? MANY‐WORLDS AMONG SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST: with Mark Harris, "Quantum Theology beyond Copenhagen: Taking Fundamentalism Literally"; Shaun C. Henson, "What Makes a Quantum Physics Belief Believable? Many‐Worlds among Six Impossible Things before Breakfast"; Emily Qureshi‐Hurst, "The Many Worries of Many Worlds"; Elise Crull, "Interpretation Neutrality for Quantum Theology"; Wilson C. K. Poon and Tom C. B. McLeish, "Is There a Distinctive Quantum Theology?"; and Ernest L. Simmons, "The Entangled Trinity, Quantum Biology, and Deep Incarnation."
An extraordinary, if circumscribed, positive shift has occurred since the mid‐twentieth century in the perceived status of Hugh Everett III's 1956 theory of the universal wave function of quantum mechanics, now widely called the Many‐Worlds Interpretation (MWI). Everett's starkly new interpretation...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 203 - 225 |
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