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Curated collection of educational materials on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
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Curated collection of educational materials on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/PaulRBerg/awesome-many-worlds
- Owner: PaulRBerg
- License: cc0-1.0
- Created: 2023-08-05T18:36:27.000Z (over 1 year ago)
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- Last Pushed: 2024-05-28T09:21:13.000Z (7 months ago)
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README
# Awesome Many Worlds [](https://awesome.re)
A curated collection of educational materials on the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics, maintained
by [Paul Razvan Berg](https://twitter.com/PaulRBerg). MWI is also known as Everettian quantum theory.
I spent years reading about this topic and I've collected the best entry and mid-level resources I've found here. I hope
you find them useful.
MWI was first proposed by Hugh Everett in his 1957 PhD thesis,
["Relative State" Formulation of Quantum Mechanics](http://www.weylmann.com/relative_state.pdf). If you're new to the
MWI, I recommend starting with David Deutsch's content.
Pull Requests are welcome. See the [contributor's guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
## Table of Contents
- [Videos](#videos)
- [Short Clips](#short-clips)
- [Podcasts](#podcasts)
- [Presentations](#presentations)
- [Audio](#audio)
- [Podcasts](#podcasts)
- [Texts](#texts)
- [Articles](#articles)
- [Books](#books)
- [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
- [License](#license)
## Videos
### Short Clips
| Title | Speaker(s) |
| :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------------------- |
| [Closer to Truth: Many Worlds of Quantum Theory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj2lxDf9R3Y) | David Deutsch |
| [David Deutsch in 1995: The multiverse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZ454K_lBY) | David Deutsch |
| [Why is Everettian quantum theory "not in the consensus"?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29h12iOWFY) | David Deutsch |
| [Are there many worlds?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kNAR74SWOho) | David Deutsch, Markus Arndt |
| [Closer to Truth: Many Worlds of Quantum Theory](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bK9JE1HjPi8) | David Wallace |
| [Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here's Why](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXTPe3wahc) | Derek Muller |
| [PBS Space Time: The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dzKWfw68M5U) | Matthew O'Dowd |
| [Looking Glass Universe: "Many Worlds" is a simplification of quantum mechanics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBlpOGdk-0U) | Mithuna Yoganathan |
| [Looking Glass Universe: If there are "Many Worlds" why don’t you experience it?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCrNMqvYyg) | Mithuna Yoganathan |
| [Big Think: The Multiverse is real. Just not in the way you think it is.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2bZi3Xm9tJE) | Sean Carroll |
### Podcasts
| Title | Speaker(s) |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------- |
| [The Multiverse is REAL](https://youtu.be/bux0SjaUCY0) | David Deutsch, Alex O'Connor |
| [Conversations with Coleman: Multiverse of Madness](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6nN-L3DO0-o) | David Deutsch, Coleman Hughes |
| [The Tim Ferriss Show: The Fabric of Reality And Much More](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FfWbcrObpUY) | David Deutsch, Naval Ravikant |
| [Conversations with Tyler: Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6vYwCkIpc) | David Deutsch, Tyler Cowen |
| [Meaning of life TV: The many worlds of quantum physics](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K9Tsk0Efa_o) | David Wallace, Robert Wright |
| [Reach Truth Podcast: Quantum Physics and Multiple Universes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtmRZeqvji8) | Sam Kuypers |
| [Quantum Foundations Podcast: Everettian Quantum Theory](https://youtu.be/kdd-tAvFdOI) | Sam Kuypers, Maria Violaris |
| [Quantum Foundations Podcast: The Maths Behind Many-Worlds](https://youtu.be/4Z4YPSiV6bM) | Sam Kuypers, Maria Violaris |
| [Lex Fridman Podcast: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iNqqOLscOBY) | Sean Carroll, Lex Fridman |
### Presentations
| Title | Speaker(s) |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | :----------------------- |
| [Brett Hall's Multiverse Playlist](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLkj6XbRsTc&list=PLsE51P_yPQCQqJDb65AIVLads8PKxYuPm) | Brett Hall |
| [Apart from universes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYi08wYMJL8) | David Deutsch |
| [Philosophy Overdose: The Emergent Multiverse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMnfZ8cLII) | David Wallace |
| [The Long Earth: Multiverse Physics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJT9qY21nA) | David Wallace |
| [The sky is blue, and other reasons physics needs the Everett interpretation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBocpB4FA3E) | David Wallace |
| [Why is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics not in the consensus (yet)?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXRxVs7A4BY) | Lev Vaidman |
| [The Royal Institution: A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5hVmeOCJjOU) | Sean Carroll |
| [New Scientist: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics](https://youtube.com/watch?v=p7XIdFbCQyY) | Sean Carroll |
| [Santa Fe Institute: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nOgalPdfHxM) | Sean Carroll |
| [The Cartesian Cafe: The Many Worlds Interpretation & Emergent Spacetime](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LGtimjuA5gA) | Sean Carroll, Tim Nguyen |
| [Forum for Philosophy: Parallel Universes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcbXJ7appIE) | Simon Saunders et al. |
## Audio
### Podcasts
| Title | Speaker(s) |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------- |
| [80,000 hours: Many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications][80k-hours] | David Wallace |
| [The Multiverses: The Emergent Multiverse](https://www.multiverses.xyz/podcast/mv2-the-emergent-multiverse-david-wallace/) | David Wallace, James Robinson |
## Texts
### Articles
| Title | Author(s) |
| :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------ |
| [Fungibility in quantum mechanics](https://conjecturesandrefutations.com/2015/04/04/fungibility-in-quantum-mechanics/) | Alan Forester |
| [Measurement is theory-laden](https://conjecturesandrefutations.com/2013/08/26/measurement-is-theory-laden-part-3/) | Alan Forester |
| [Tunnelling](https://conjecturesandrefutations.com/2014/11/19/tunnelling/) | Alan Forester |
| [The Multiverse on Brett Hall's blog](https://bretthall.org/the-multiverse.html) | Brett Hall |
| ["Many Minds" Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics](https://daviddeutsch.org.uk/many-minds-interpretations-of-quantum-mechanics/) | David Deutsch |
| [Many lives in many worlds](https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/everett2.pdf) | Max Tegmark |
| [The Critical Rationalist blog: The Multiverse](https://thecriticalrationalist.weebly.com/the-multiverse.html) | Sam Kuypers |
| [Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/) | Stanford |
| [Why The Many-worlds Formulation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Probably Correct][probably-correct] | Sean Carroll |
### Books
If you only read one book on this list, go with The Beginning of Infinity.
| Title | Author(s) |
| :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------------- |
| [The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics](https://amazon.com/Interpretation-Quantum-Mechanics-Princeton-Library/dp/069161895X) | Bryce DeWitt |
| [The Beginning of Infinity](https://amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359) | David Deutsch |
| [The Fabric of Reality](https://amazon.com/Fabric-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Implications/dp/014027541X) | David Deutsch |
| [The Emergent Multiverse](https://amazon.com/Emergent-Multiverse-Quantum-according-Interpretation/dp/0198707541) | David Wallace |
| [Something Deeply Hidden](https://amazon.com/Something-Deeply-Hidden-Emergence-Spacetime/dp/1524743011) | Sean Carroll |
| [Many Worlds?](https://amazon.com/Many-Worlds-Everett-Quantum-Reality-ebook/dp/B006UQ9770) | Simon Saunders et al. |
## Miscellaneous
- [2022 research workshop at Tel Aviv University](https://www.mwi2022tau.com/): academic conference on many-worlds
- [Devs](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186/): a TV series about quantum computers that takes many-worlds seriously
- [Sliding Doors](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/): a movie that shows the parallel view of a woman's life
- [Universe Splitter](https://cheapuniverses.com/universesplitter/): an app that shoots single photons through a
half-silvered mirror, measures the result, and tells you which universe you ended up in
## License
This project is licensed under CC0.
[80k-hours]: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/david-wallace-many-worlds-theory-of-quantum-mechanics/
[probably-correct]:
https://preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/06/30/why-the-many-worlds-formulation-of-quantum-mechanics-is-probably-correct/