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Hugh Everett III

Is “Many Worlds” an atheist war on quantum mechanics?

Huyett: "As a graduate student in the 1950s, [Hugh] Everett was alarmed to discover that traditional quantum mechanics did not line up with his materialist commitments. He was repulsed by the fact that the human mind seemed to be given a special role—a conclusion that Everett thought smacked of the supernatural. " So he set out to change the approach via his Many Worlds hypothesis. Read More ›