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  Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to False vacuum, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Chase (talk | contributions) 01:12, 9 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Chasewc91: Is it original? I've heard it mentioned multiple times as the "plan B" explanation of why the vacuum does not decay if there is none better. This is just a version of "quantum suicide" idea. In any case, as you are obviously more experienced, you decide; but if you decide to remove it, then for consistency it should also be removed from the article on Many-worlds interpretation, section 8.2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Strecosaurus (talkcontribs) 01:29, 9 July 2015‎

If this information is available in other sources, feel free to add it back with a citation to a reliable publication. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for more details. Cheers. Chase (talk | contributions) 01:32, 9 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Chasewc91: I'll try to find something reference-able (from Max Tegmark, for instance), in the meantime that I haven't yet done this, in the name of consistency I insist on removing the same information from section 8.2 of Many-worlds interpretation where it is unsupported by any source reference (the link 73 in the first sentence there refers to an entirely unrelated question).

Do you have any unreliable sources? Or discussions on this? It very much intereests me Perfection (talk) 02:05, 9 July 2015 (UTC)Reply


@Chasewc91:

Is this source - http://www.academia.edu/758131/Ex_Nihilo_Nihil_Fit_Heidegger_Nothing_and_False_Vacuum_Decay - reliable enough? Here is the relevant quote:

If we exist in a false vacuum and it does in fact decay, there would literally be no consequences as all existence as we know it, whether we interpret it in terms of being or becoming, would cease completely and well-nigh instantaneously. There's be no one to notice. There is even an argument in the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics analogous to that of quantum suicide (you can only experience world-lines in which you exist, therefore suicide will always fail no matter how improbably) that is in fact stronger than its analogue.The quantum suicide argument has solipsism as its Achilles heel. ALL observers in the universe would be annihilated in a vacuum metastability event, avoiding this weakness of the original argument.


@Chasewc91: Or here: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2009/10/if-god-hates-the-higgs-boson-we-can-build-paradise-on-earth/ quote: Hans Moravec suggested in his book Mind Children (1988) that if you tried to turn on a particle accelerator a number of times and every time something prevents it from running, this might be a sign that something like quantum suicide is happening. The functional accelerator might be doing something dangerous, such as causing vaccuum decay that instantly wiped out the Earth, acting like a global quantum suicide device. [If you don't reply, I'll assume it's okay, I don't see why it isn't.]

Hi, this isn't really my area of expertise unfortunately. I just removed it because it was not sourced. Post on Talk:False vacuum and see what other editors think, or you could add it back to the article with sources added. Let me know if you need help with this. Cheers. Chase (talk | contributions) 02:44, 9 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

@Chasewc91: I've found and added the full-blown quote from the original 80s' book (together with the reference), so I think it's settled now.

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Do you have a ref for that? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:03, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Could you please produce some evidence that there was ever any such person by that name? Perhaps it's an issue of transliteration between the Cyrillic and Roman alphabets.

Otherwise I'll have to remove it from the article.

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of course, for example there is a movie named after him - "Khrustalyov, my car". and it cannot possibly be an issue of transliteration, these are different names with different meanings (both derived from completely unrelated normal Russian words plus the -ov suffix)

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