Thread by @wysyq

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Is it possible to test the MWI (many worlds interpretation)?
May be, with a unique version of the anthropic principle.
(help, @phalpern)
#multiverse #quantum #physics
(background: )en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ever…

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MY world should be the one in which I am conscious of many "near miss" events where I could have lost my life with a high probability. If for example I have been through ten situations with > 50% probability of dying but I am still alive, isn't that strange?

3/4 Well, may be I was very fortunate, may be I won that kind of lottery, yes, but what if most people in this MY world say they have experienced the same thing? Wouldn't that be still more bizarre?

4/4 So... Take a random sample of about a thousand old people, ask them how many near misses they have gone through in their life. Look at the distribution of those events in the sample. If we live in a MW, the curve should have a negative skew.

Addendum

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Still thinking (phantasizing) with my few neurons, 🤔 . Following my intuition, a negative skew would be a ~"proof", a gaussian curve would be suspicious and a positive skew would mean nothing. And I think all the distributions between those extremes would be equiprobable (?)

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