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Untestable universes is not a rejoinder to “stop thinking” it’s just another way to achieve it

The onion has to be funny, not just dumb. It isn’t the Babylon bee.

I literally had an Israel defender on reddit agree that black people under apartheid should have accepted it for “peace”. I live in south Africa, fuck Nazis, even the Jewish ones.

Irony: Jewish people in SA were a big part of anti-apartheid efforts; all the while Israel was apartheid’s biggest mate (after Thatcher and Reagan got cold feet of course, don’t feel too righteous in the anglosphere).

The “solutions” are not out of reach. Just do the experiment more than once, like any statistical theory.

The moon thing: yes because it was hard to get to, not impossible in principle. If the moon was in a parallel universe your analogy wouldn’t be irrelevant.

It wouldn’t work, even in principle. They want to force you to live by their lunacy. It would be totally pointless if they couldn’t exert power over the unwilling.

“It’s not as pop-sci as painted” anyway here’s some pop-sci to justify it…

The reply to the energy problem is hilarious. These universes that differ by a single quantum event have radically different energy totals. Science!

Great answer, but it unfortunately is taken seriously. The reason is because it is an “end of the road” hypothesis. It tells you all the weirdness is fundamental and no further thought is required. Just like good old Copenhagen. The unfalsifiability is a virtue here, it’s a complete explanatin without the messy testing. Now stop thinking, shut up, and calculate.

If we sufficiently torture the word “simplest”.

It’s stronger than a classical one, yes. But Einstein’s description is mocking the idea of entanglement as an active link that allows distant states to be changed by local actions.

Positrons don’t move backwards in time in any physical sense. Their mathematical representation is like an electron with a negative time coordinate but this is physically dubious because it fails in curved spacetimes. Electron-positron pairs are entangled because they are correlated by the process that created the pair. Entanglement is just a correlation, not some magical link.