i just want to make the comment that the full length documentary this clip was taken from contains a bunch of baloney

if you don't believe me, some of the "experts" interviewed include a woman who believes she can channel a 35,000 year old warrior god, and a man who believes he can will water to crystallize in patterns determined by specific chants he speaks to the water. I should note that part of the documentary involves detailing this man's "experiments"

also, i'm not sure how the double slit experiment shows what you're claiming it shows

This post was edited by Derkaderk on Oct 31 2011 11:19am

Hah, I sort of want to see that full documentary now. We watched that clip in one of my courses in undergrad (specifically Analytical Physics IV, the fourth semester of calculus-based general physics before you start taking upper level, field-specific courses) but I never knew there was more.

As for what he's saying, there is a Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. There is also the Multiple Histories interpretation. Neither actually says that a decision ACTUALLY fractures the universe into two parts and one part follows one choice and the other follows the other choice, but that's how some people think of it.

There are also choices you wouldn't make, so its limited, for example, right now in no realities do i go and start bashing a hole in my wall with a sledgehammer. Its all pre-determined in a way because our conscience limits us.

This post was edited by Torm1 on Nov 1 2011 08:39am

You don't know that. There might be a reality where someone hid a baby inside the wall and the only way to save it is to bash a hole in the wall with a sledgehammer.