Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Lev Vaidman · 2021 · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Summary
Detailed entry on the Everett / Many-Worlds interpretation, including the quantum measurement problem and probability.
Why it matters here
The default scholarly reference for what Many-Worlds actually claims and where it is contested.
Linked claims
In a long-lived, accelerating universe, random thermal fluctuations could spontaneously assemble a self-aware brain with false memories of a coherent life. Several modern cosmological models appear to predict such observers should statistically dominate — which is widely treated as a reason those models are wrong, not as evidence about you.
Everett's solution to the measurement problem. No collapse — every outcome happens in branching universes.
Related evidence hubs
Physics-adjacent worldviews — block universe, many-worlds, simulation, free will.
Many-worlds, simulation, mathematical universe.
Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.
Block universe, presentism, eternalism, emergent time.