{"id":220667,"date":"2025-08-22T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/many-worlds-of-quantum-theory"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:10:57","slug":"many-worlds-of-quantum-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/many-worlds-of-quantum-theory","title":{"rendered":"Many Worlds of Quantum Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kj2lxDf9R3Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world\u2019s deepest questions without the need for paywalls: <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq\">https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum theory is very strange. No act is wholly sure. Everything works by probabilities, described by a wave function. But what is a wavefunction? One theory is that every possibility is in fact a real world of sorts. This is the Many Worlds interpretation of Hugh Everett and what it claims boggles the brain. You can\u2019t imagine how many worlds there would be.<\/p>\n<p>Free access to Closer to Truth\u2019s library of 5,000 videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch more interviews on quantum theory: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3vQwB0f\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3vQwB0f<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David Elieser Deutsch, FRS is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Register for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/CTT.com\">CTT.com<\/a> for subscriber-only exclusives: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GXmFsP\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2GXmFsP<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/many-worlds-of-quantum-theory\">Continue reading \u201cMany Worlds of Quantum Theory\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world\u2019s deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https:\/\/shorturl.at\/OnyRq. Quantum theory is very strange. No act is wholly sure. Everything works by probabilities, described by a wave function. But what is a wavefunction? One theory is that every possibility is in fact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}