There was a Gupta period/empire that was fairly prosperous and is often refered to as a golden age or the classical era of India. And yes there are many, many Gupta's in the world - hell there are allota fucking Indians in the world period. Patel is pretty damn common too.
A religion is nothing but a product of a people and their culture. If you can't see that then don't read further and don't reply to me as I have no motivation for discussing this point.
To say that violence is a product of a religion is unfair. Being fair would be to say that a religion is the product of a violent people.
But like peoples and their cultures, religions change. A christian today is nothing at all like a christian a thousand nor two thousand years ago. Any christian from two thousand years ago wouldn't be nor consider themself to be 'saved' and therefore most evangelic christians would reason them deemed to hell. And a christian of today wouldn't even understand what christianity 'is' 2000 years ago as the entire mythology of christianity is completely different than it was.
The only true thing is that religion can be a powerful tool to manipulate the masses of ignorant people in this world. And that is why religions should have no power and should have nothing to do with the state. I consider any preacher that tells his congregation to vote a certain way (Fawell) to be far worse than the lowest fake (Benny Hinn).
What's sad is that the last Harry Potter movie had completely consistant time travel.
It's very sad a scientist can enjoy a movie about magic more than the completely innaccurate garbage that passes for science fiction.
How come we can see the laser beams? And why are they so freaking slow? How come we can hear in the vaccum of space? How come we only have inertia when dramatic events occur? How come nearly every alien species lives in an earth-like atmosphere? How come slowing down is infinitely easier than speeding up?
Remember when Jordy tuned his visor to see neutrino's? I almost shat a brick.
the distance that light emitted by a cesium 133 atom transitioning between the two hyperfine levels of its ground state will travel as it vibrates exactly 9,192,631,770 / 299,792,458 times
The Atari series had lots of backwards compatibility throughout the years. Even Atari's competitors were backwards compatible to Atari - Coleco and Intellivision. This is obvious and strong historical evidence.
NES: First gen. SNES: Planned to be backward compatible, not implemented in release. N64: Not backward compatible. Gamecube: Not backward compatible.
The Super Famicom was backwards compatible to the Famicom. The Super Nintendo was supposed to be backwards compatible but wasn't and this was widely considered bad by everybody at the time.
The N64 and Gamecude have not been backwards compatible, but the SNES was Nintendo's last king of the home console. This is more evidence.
SMS: First gen. Genesis: Not backward compatible. Saturn: Not backward compatible. Dreamcast: Not backward compatible.
The Sega Master System was just a revamped Sega Mark III which was infact backwards compatible to the Mark I and II softwares.
The Sega Genesis had an adaptor to play the Master system games. The Genesis was also updated by the Sega CD and the 32X (US). The Saturn came out (US) on the heels of the 32x but without backwards compatibility and the Saturn failed in the US. (There are many other good reasons like the fact that Sega of America was completely out of touch with video games in general and later all fired)
The Dreamcast had no backwards compatiblity, and was released too soon - it has failed worldwide in a similar way the Saturn failed in America.
Neo Geo: First (and only) gen. Jaguar: Not backward compatible.
The cartridge Neo Geo was followed by a less effective CD based system , ditching cartridges due to cost, that failed terribly.
The Jaguar had nothing to be compatible to? The system before the Jaguar, The Panther, was never released.
I have a day one PS2. It plays all of my old PS1 games. You must be having problems unrelated to the emulation. There were only about a dozen games known not to work and most of them were japanese releases.
Do CD audio discs work? That would rule out the CD laser.
I thought I said only one engineer should be shot, namely the one bad engineer that forgot by what principle tires worked. If I mistakenly generalized to all engineers or came off that way, then I am sorry.
Science is taken as an assumption. It has an entire philosophy behind it that is in no way logically justified. The only proof of science is the utility of it's fruits. I cannot prove to you that we live in a scientific world any more than a theologian can prove to you his god exists. But where as the theologian cannot make it rain on command, the scientist can (at least in this world) perform great acts of apparent magic. There is nothing that justifies the naturalistic explaination other than intuition and success.
In such a situation where a demon causes sickness, then science is simply not very useful. If the demons act through germs, then science will discover germs and never demons. And science will proceed as if there were never demons.
If the demon acts in a nonphysical manner, then science will just keep answering "not this", "not that",... But this hasn't been the case in any field that science should apply to.
If we find something not understood, like dark matter, and in a thousand years we haven't begin to crack it. Then feel free to base a religion around it.
Physics is an applied science (Unlike astronomy for instance). Don't give me that theory crap. Any physicist with little grasp of the real world is a bad physicist no matter how much string theory they can do. Egghead professors with no connection to reality belong in the math department.
I don't think you have any idea how infuriating a statement like that is to a physicist. That has to be one of the worst things you could ever say to a physicist. If that were true it would discount the whole field as being superfluous.
The major problem is the end with the engine is heavier. And the more weight, the more normal force. And the more normal force, the more friction. And cars are propelled by friction.
Having the engine on one end and drive on the other creates a car that will tend to slip, have poor control in the rain, and be unusable in the snow.
Any engineer that designs such a car is an idiot and needs to be shot.
While not the best solution for the goal, one of the important features of the registry that.conf files lack is that of per user, or per group configuration.
I don't know about per group, but conf files definately do have per user capability and have had for a very long time. You put one file in/etc for everybody and personal files in/~ to override that behavior. Take a quick look at all of your shell/login configuration files to see how this is done.
The Cornell cluster was donated. I don't know anything about the Korean cluster.
The press release contained drivel such as
Using a high volume, industry standard operating system such as Windows is an advantage to businesses and universities that want to implement production-quality HPC seamlessly throughout their organizations. Microsoft offers solutions for traditional message-passing computing and loosely coupled, "master/worker" applications, which organizations are implementing using Microsoft's.NET technology. New tools are being developed, such as a parallel debugger that will be built into the next version of Visual Studio and a new, database-driven scheduling and resource management system being developed by CTC for both clusters and desktops.
and
"Windows clusters are in use in industries that demand performance," said Greg Rankich, High Performance Computing Solutions Manager at Microsoft. "We have recently seen large-scale Windows HPC systems deployed in the oil, digital rendering, and finance industries." Ease of use, reduction in systems administration costs, and integration within the enterprise were among the benefits cited, according to Rankich. "CTC's TOP500 system is one more example of scaleable performance achievable with Windows servers," he added.
They also like to talk about how the MS cluster is so much cheaper than traditional UNIX clusters.
It's just one big commercial for MS.
But given that nobody in their right mind would pay for one of these (yet), and that it takes Microsoft (and dell) to actually build it, I hear it actually does work. At least that's what my friend at Cornell told me. He seems like an honest guy.
.4. Shooting at Buell Elementary School in Michigan. Bowling depicts the juvenile shooter who killed Kayla Rolland as a sympathetic youngster, from a struggling family, who just found a gun in his uncle's house and took it to school. "No one knew why the little boy wanted to shoot the little girl."
Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before. Since the incident, he has stabbed another child with a knife.
Fact: The uncle's house was the family business -- the neighborhood crack-house. The gun was stolen and was purchased by the uncle in exchange for drugs.The shooter's father was already serving a prison term for theft and drug offenses. A few weeks later police busted the shooter's grandmother and aunt for narcotics sales. After police hauled the family away, the neighbors applauded the officers. This was not a nice but misunderstood family.
I think Moore is a bit nutty, but this part of the critique strikes me as very disturbing on a level more fundamental than just logic and fact.
Moore's naive protrait is of a disturbed boy from a struggling family who shoots a girl without known reason. The critique is saying that the boy has a history of violence and a bad family. As if that makes elementary school murder completely understandable now?
If anything it seems that these facts greatly strengthen Moore's argument. His mother wasn't selling drugs and for her to make a clean living she couldn't be there to raise him.
Factually he is still a youngster, his family is certainly struggling, and they gave no reason for him to shoot someone other than casting him as being inherently evil. Apparently they are just saying that we shouldn't be sympathetic to the boy?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Not sure if you have any idea what your talking about. The 300 series with the big ass engine V8 new hemi get 26MPG on the highway.
The 300 series with a V8 gets 17/25 and that is only because the engine normally only runs on 4 cylinders. Technically that unimpressive average mileage of 17/25 isn't V8 mileage.
That is about average these days, and the "econobox" cars like the Civic (not including hybrid) get about 30 - 35MPG on the highway (the high end civic si being 30MPG). a whopping 4 - 9 miles per gallon increase.
The manual civic HX ($14k, not a hybrid) gets 36/44. That's a difference of 19 and about twice as much.
Not to mention you can't tow a damn thing with a civic
Straw man.
and forget about merging onto the highway with four passengers as well.
You are the first person I've met with such problems. And I live in DC, the second worst traffic in the US. My anecdotal evidence trumps yours.
more HP != worse gas mileage. It can if the car is geared towards performance, but thats not always the case. Any car thats in the 22MPG + range is fine. above 32MPG is outstanding.
There is pointless - SUV, and there is slight overkill (350 HP) which would you preffer ? (oh and the reason most SUV's get bad mileage is because the engines are typically underpowered.)
There is a negative correlation between HP and milage. To say other wise is simply delusional.
The first 27 models of SUV's with the best mileage are all 4 cylinders. The last 62 models of SUV's with the worst mileage are all 8 cylinders.
I find your rant against the ManyWorldsInpretation of QuantumTheory funny, since someone already said that MWI is consistent with other theories
Being an "interpretation" MWI should give the same mathematical predictions as all of the other interpretations of quantum mechanics. MWI does not have any influence on my ability to calculate scattering matrices or do perturbation.
so your argument amounts to this: "Quantum theory does not make sense"
My argument is that MWI does not make sense. I have yet to see a (working) full, rigorous definition of MWI where splitting, unsplitting, and the distribution of universes are all rigorously set forth (naively you would think you could just distribute the universes just like your superposition)
My problem with MWI is this: We have no mechanistic understanding of the fuzzy nature of QM. MWI is a solution to this problem. Though MWI does give an explaination, it in itself requires a much, much larger explaination.
It could be the case that MWI is correct, but currently (to the best of my knowledge) it is no more useful than for you to tell a caveman the sky is blue because light bounces off of air and telling him no more than that.
So given that the explaination is so complicated; complicated far beyond the problem it solves - I am willing to gamble that it is flat out wrong.
To put it simply, to get the probable results, you need under QT all states to exist, even the unlikely ones.
Yes that is true. And even though improbable things may occur, we can justify that our world will behave because of the law of averages.
But according to MWI there will be a universe where everything misbehaves. And there is nothing you can do about that but to say that we probably don't live in that universe - BUT somebody does live in that universe because it exists.
So you are stuck with universes that have no physics. And if that is okay with you then you shouldn't be working anywhere near an experimentalist, because he would probably strangle you.
You could try to amend this by stating that there is some magic rule causing quantum collapse/measurements, for example you could have a theory which states sharply decreasing quantum effects for large masses, below what the theory predicts.
It is already fairly well known how to see the classical world created by quantum mechanics on the most basic level.
Given the solution of some simple system you just take the limit of plank's constant to zero. But you must have something to take the limit of. MWI provides no such rigor.
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There was a Gupta period/empire that was fairly prosperous and is often refered to as a golden age or the classical era of India. And yes there are many, many Gupta's in the world - hell there are allota fucking Indians in the world period. Patel is pretty damn common too.
A religion is nothing but a product of a people and their culture. If you can't see that then don't read further and don't reply to me as I have no motivation for discussing this point.
To say that violence is a product of a religion is unfair. Being fair would be to say that a religion is the product of a violent people.
But like peoples and their cultures, religions change. A christian today is nothing at all like a christian a thousand nor two thousand years ago. Any christian from two thousand years ago wouldn't be nor consider themself to be 'saved' and therefore most evangelic christians would reason them deemed to hell. And a christian of today wouldn't even understand what christianity 'is' 2000 years ago as the entire mythology of christianity is completely different than it was.
The only true thing is that religion can be a powerful tool to manipulate the masses of ignorant people in this world. And that is why religions should have no power and should have nothing to do with the state. I consider any preacher that tells his congregation to vote a certain way (Fawell) to be far worse than the lowest fake (Benny Hinn).
Handguns have a functional purpose other than to kill human beings?
Now I am confused because Best Buy employee's don't take a cut of the profits (unlike say Circuit City), so why would they lower the price for you?
falsely invaded two countries which had nothing to do with terrorism
That is completely and absolutely false.
Do people forget that Saddam Hussein was paying big fat checks the families of dead Palestinian suicide bombers.
Why do people seem to twist all of the facts in their minds to be all white or black?
What's sad is that the last Harry Potter movie had completely consistant time travel.
It's very sad a scientist can enjoy a movie about magic more than the completely innaccurate garbage that passes for science fiction.
How come we can see the laser beams? And why are they so freaking slow?
How come we can hear in the vaccum of space?
How come we only have inertia when dramatic events occur?
How come nearly every alien species lives in an earth-like atmosphere?
How come slowing down is infinitely easier than speeding up?
Remember when Jordy tuned his visor to see neutrino's? I almost shat a brick.
the distance that light emitted by a cesium 133 atom transitioning between the two hyperfine levels of its ground state will travel as it vibrates exactly 9,192,631,770 / 299,792,458 times
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/inches.html
Atari 2600: First gen.
The Atari series had lots of backwards compatibility throughout the years. Even Atari's competitors were backwards compatible to Atari - Coleco and Intellivision. This is obvious and strong historical evidence.
NES: First gen.
SNES: Planned to be backward compatible, not implemented in release.
N64: Not backward compatible.
Gamecube: Not backward compatible.
The Super Famicom was backwards compatible to the Famicom. The Super Nintendo was supposed to be backwards compatible but wasn't and this was widely considered bad by everybody at the time.
The N64 and Gamecude have not been backwards compatible, but the SNES was Nintendo's last king of the home console. This is more evidence.
SMS: First gen.
Genesis: Not backward compatible.
Saturn: Not backward compatible.
Dreamcast: Not backward compatible.
The Sega Master System was just a revamped Sega Mark III which was infact backwards compatible to the Mark I and II softwares.
The Sega Genesis had an adaptor to play the Master system games. The Genesis was also updated by the Sega CD and the 32X (US). The Saturn came out (US) on the heels of the 32x but without backwards compatibility and the Saturn failed in the US. (There are many other good reasons like the fact that Sega of America was completely out of touch with video games in general and later all fired)
The Dreamcast had no backwards compatiblity, and was released too soon - it has failed worldwide in a similar way the Saturn failed in America.
Neo Geo: First (and only) gen.
Jaguar: Not backward compatible.
The cartridge Neo Geo was followed by a less effective CD based system , ditching cartridges due to cost, that failed terribly.
The Jaguar had nothing to be compatible to? The system before the Jaguar, The Panther, was never released.
I have a day one PS2. It plays all of my old PS1 games. You must be having problems unrelated to the emulation. There were only about a dozen games known not to work and most of them were japanese releases.
Do CD audio discs work? That would rule out the CD laser.
Given that my wife broke her neck while driving the speed limit in the rain, I am highly unlikely to conceed.
I thought I said only one engineer should be shot, namely the one bad engineer that forgot by what principle tires worked. If I mistakenly generalized to all engineers or came off that way, then I am sorry.
Science is taken as an assumption. It has an entire philosophy behind it that is in no way logically justified. The only proof of science is the utility of it's fruits. I cannot prove to you that we live in a scientific world any more than a theologian can prove to you his god exists. But where as the theologian cannot make it rain on command, the scientist can (at least in this world) perform great acts of apparent magic. There is nothing that justifies the naturalistic explaination other than intuition and success.
... But this hasn't been the case in any field that science should apply to.
In such a situation where a demon causes sickness, then science is simply not very useful. If the demons act through germs, then science will discover germs and never demons. And science will proceed as if there were never demons.
If the demon acts in a nonphysical manner, then science will just keep answering "not this", "not that",
If we find something not understood, like dark matter, and in a thousand years we haven't begin to crack it. Then feel free to base a religion around it.
Physics is an applied science (Unlike astronomy for instance). Don't give me that theory crap. Any physicist with little grasp of the real world is a bad physicist no matter how much string theory they can do. Egghead professors with no connection to reality belong in the math department.
I don't think you have any idea how infuriating a statement like that is to a physicist. That has to be one of the worst things you could ever say to a physicist. If that were true it would discount the whole field as being superfluous.
As for shooting engineers, of course, they know so much less than us slashdot readers.
Ya sorry, I only have a degree in physics. What do I know.
The major problem is the end with the engine is heavier. And the more weight, the more normal force. And the more normal force, the more friction. And cars are propelled by friction.
Having the engine on one end and drive on the other creates a car that will tend to slip, have poor control in the rain, and be unusable in the snow.
Any engineer that designs such a car is an idiot and needs to be shot.
Kinda like why some people don't like front wheel drive automobiles and some don't like rear wheel drive.
Because putting the engine in the front and the drive in the back is like asking God to kick you in the ear when it snows.
I tried to click a hyperlink on a piece of paper once.
Please don't tell anyone.
While not the best solution for the goal, one of the important features of the registry that .conf files lack is that of per user, or per group configuration.
/etc for everybody and personal files in /~ to override that behavior. Take a quick look at all of your shell/login configuration files to see how this is done.
I don't know about per group, but conf files definately do have per user capability and have had for a very long time. You put one file in
The Cornell cluster was donated. I don't know anything about the Korean cluster.
.NET technology. New tools are being developed, such as a parallel debugger that will be built into the next version of Visual Studio and a new, database-driven scheduling and resource management system being developed by CTC for both clusters and desktops.
The press release contained drivel such as
Using a high volume, industry standard operating system such as Windows is an advantage to businesses and universities that want to implement production-quality HPC seamlessly throughout their organizations. Microsoft offers solutions for traditional message-passing computing and loosely coupled, "master/worker" applications, which organizations are implementing using Microsoft's
and
"Windows clusters are in use in industries that demand performance," said Greg Rankich, High Performance Computing Solutions Manager at Microsoft. "We have recently seen large-scale Windows HPC systems deployed in the oil, digital rendering, and finance industries." Ease of use, reduction in systems administration costs, and integration within the enterprise were among the benefits cited, according to Rankich. "CTC's TOP500 system is one more example of scaleable performance achievable with Windows servers," he added.
They also like to talk about how the MS cluster is so much cheaper than traditional UNIX clusters.
It's just one big commercial for MS.
But given that nobody in their right mind would pay for one of these (yet), and that it takes Microsoft (and dell) to actually build it, I hear it actually does work. At least that's what my friend at Cornell told me. He seems like an honest guy.
1. have zombie load the page
2. send captcha to india, china, etc.
Make it the question "What is on channel #N right now?". Where channel #N is some comcast user/time/location specific broadcast.
3. get back human-decoded captcha
4. submit web page
.4. Shooting at Buell Elementary School in Michigan. Bowling depicts the juvenile shooter who killed Kayla Rolland as a sympathetic youngster, from a struggling family, who just found a gun in his uncle's house and took it to school. "No one knew why the little boy wanted to shoot the little girl."
Fact: The little boy was the class thug, already suspended from school for stabbing another kid with a pencil, and had fought with Kayla the day before. Since the incident, he has stabbed another child with a knife.
Fact: The uncle's house was the family business -- the neighborhood crack-house. The gun was stolen and was purchased by the uncle in exchange for drugs.The shooter's father was already serving a prison term for theft and drug offenses. A few weeks later police busted the shooter's grandmother and aunt for narcotics sales. After police hauled the family away, the neighbors applauded the officers. This was not a nice but misunderstood family.
I think Moore is a bit nutty, but this part of the critique strikes me as very disturbing on a level more fundamental than just logic and fact.
Moore's naive protrait is of a disturbed boy from a struggling family who shoots a girl without known reason. The critique is saying that the boy has a history of violence and a bad family. As if that makes elementary school murder completely understandable now?
If anything it seems that these facts greatly strengthen Moore's argument. His mother wasn't selling drugs and for her to make a clean living she couldn't be there to raise him.
Factually he is still a youngster, his family is certainly struggling, and they gave no reason for him to shoot someone other than casting him as being inherently evil. Apparently they are just saying that we shouldn't be sympathetic to the boy?
Is this not very disturbing to anyone else?
Ripper: Mandrake?
Mandrake: Yes, Jack?
Ripper: Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Mandrake: Well, I can't say I have.
Ripper: Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.
Ripper: On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?
Mandrake: Uh, uh, Good Lord!
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. (he begins to chuckle nervously)
Ripper: Are you beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. (more laughter)
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
> My anecdotal evidence trumps yours.
Maybe in your all to small mind.
That was sarcasm. Anecdotal evidence is 99% worthless.
Not sure if you have any idea what your talking about. The 300 series with the big ass engine V8 new hemi get 26MPG on the highway.
The 300 series with a V8 gets 17/25 and that is only because the engine normally only runs on 4 cylinders. Technically that unimpressive average mileage of 17/25 isn't V8 mileage.
That is about average these days, and the "econobox" cars like the Civic (not including hybrid) get about 30 - 35MPG on the highway (the high end civic si being 30MPG). a whopping 4 - 9 miles per gallon increase.
The manual civic HX ($14k, not a hybrid) gets 36/44. That's a difference of 19 and about twice as much.
Not to mention you can't tow a damn thing with a civic
Straw man.
and forget about merging onto the highway with four passengers as well.
You are the first person I've met with such problems. And I live in DC, the second worst traffic in the US. My anecdotal evidence trumps yours.
more HP != worse gas mileage. It can if the car is geared towards performance, but thats not always the case. Any car thats in the 22MPG + range is fine. above 32MPG is outstanding.
There is pointless - SUV, and there is slight overkill (350 HP) which would you preffer ? (oh and the reason most SUV's get bad mileage is because the engines are typically underpowered.)
There is a negative correlation between HP and milage. To say other wise is simply delusional.
The first 27 models of SUV's with the best mileage are all 4 cylinders. The last 62 models of SUV's with the worst mileage are all 8 cylinders.
I suggest you go here. You are a clueless tool.
I find your rant against the ManyWorldsInpretation of QuantumTheory funny, since someone already said that MWI is consistent with other theories
Being an "interpretation" MWI should give the same mathematical predictions as all of the other interpretations of quantum mechanics. MWI does not have any influence on my ability to calculate scattering matrices or do perturbation.
so your argument amounts to this: "Quantum theory does not make sense"
My argument is that MWI does not make sense. I have yet to see a (working) full, rigorous definition of MWI where splitting, unsplitting, and the distribution of universes are all rigorously set forth (naively you would think you could just distribute the universes just like your superposition)
My problem with MWI is this:
We have no mechanistic understanding of the fuzzy nature of QM.
MWI is a solution to this problem.
Though MWI does give an explaination, it in itself requires a much, much larger explaination.
It could be the case that MWI is correct, but currently (to the best of my knowledge) it is no more useful than for you to tell a caveman the sky is blue because light bounces off of air and telling him no more than that.
So given that the explaination is so complicated; complicated far beyond the problem it solves - I am willing to gamble that it is flat out wrong.
To put it simply, to get the probable results, you need under QT all states to exist, even the unlikely ones.
Yes that is true. And even though improbable things may occur, we can justify that our world will behave because of the law of averages.
But according to MWI there will be a universe where everything misbehaves. And there is nothing you can do about that but to say that we probably don't live in that universe - BUT somebody does live in that universe because it exists.
So you are stuck with universes that have no physics. And if that is okay with you then you shouldn't be working anywhere near an experimentalist, because he would probably strangle you.
You could try to amend this by stating that there is some magic rule causing quantum collapse/measurements, for example you could have a theory which states sharply decreasing quantum effects for large masses, below what the theory predicts.
It is already fairly well known how to see the classical world created by quantum mechanics on the most basic level.
Given the solution of some simple system you just take the limit of plank's constant to zero. But you must have something to take the limit of. MWI provides no such rigor.