[Physics] Probability and the many-worlds interpretation

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If I toss a coin, then according to the many worlds interpretation of QM, in half those worlds I'll get a head. If I then toss again, then in a quarter I will have got two heads.
And so on. There will therefore be some extreme worlds where I always get heads. What happens to the normal distribution of probabilities say in a world where I always get a head, you always toss a six on a die and all electrons are spin up? Similar extreme outcomes of will not happen in only one world, but an infinite number. In these worlds the normal distribution of events will not occur. What an I missing about the many-world interpretation of QM?

Best Answer

Without entering the quantum mechanics of the situation, we can see that each toss is a new world. The next toss is another world, so the series of heads do not add in the way you think to make a world of all heads.

Each world deserted by each new toss will have the usual probabilities of heads or tails.

A world of all heads is possible with sequential tossings making a history of all heads, but not in the way you think:

There will therefore be some extreme worlds where I always get heads

The "always get heads" assumes that you have freedom to keep tossing in the same world. You can only "always have gotten heads" in one world line.

The many worlds interpretation is just mathematics made visual, in my opinion.

Of course to even register that such a world line exists innumerable numbers of worlds will have been created so as to have the history in your world line that such a world existed ! Thinking mathematically is much simpler.

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