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The Many Mice Theory of Quantum Mechanics
The father of the quantum multiverse didn’t actually think of it as a multiverse.
On April 14, 1954, Albert Einstein, one of the Institute's first Faculty members (1933–55), gave the last lecture of his life. Speaking to physics students at Princeton University, he remarked that although quantum mechanics works, “it is difficult to believe that this description is complete. It seems to make the world quite nebulous unless somebody, like a mouse, is looking at it.”
In 1970, Bryce Seligman Dewitt, Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences (1949–50, 1954, 1964) and Member in the School of Natural Sciences (1966), contributed a response.
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