{"id":11320,"date":"2019-09-17T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:34:56","slug":"metaphorical-worlds-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11320","title":{"rendered":"Metaphorical Worlds Interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Orzel has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chadorzel\/2019\/09\/17\/many-worlds-but-too-much-metaphor\/\">piece at Forbes<\/a> which I like a lot, where he argues that the &#8220;Many Worlds&#8221; of the MWI interpretation should be taken metaphorically, and thus the MWI really should be the &#8220;Metaphorical Worlds Interpretation&#8221;. I urge you to take a look (and argue about this with him, not me&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Natalie Wolchover <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nattyover\/status\/1174320957588148230\">suggests<\/a> renaming MWI as the &#8220;Many Cakes Interpretation&#8221;, since<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there&#8217;s a lot of having of cakes and eating them as soon as things get awkward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Orzel has a piece at Forbes which I like a lot, where he argues that the &#8220;Many Worlds&#8221; of the MWI interpretation should be taken metaphorically, and thus the MWI really should be the &#8220;Metaphorical Worlds Interpretation&#8221;. I urge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=11320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-mechanics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11324,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions\/11324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}