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[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

Hugh Everett

As an analogy one can imagine an intelligent amoeba with a good memory. As time progresses the amoeba is constantly splitting, each time the resulting amoebas having the same memories as the parent. Our amoeba hence does not have a life line, but a life tree.

Hugh Everett

The physical "reality" is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself.

Hugh Everett

Hugh Everett

Hugh Everett

Born: November 11, 1930

Died: July 19, 1982 (aged 51)

Bio: Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation.

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