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Completion Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics

In the completion interpretation (due to Jonathan Gorard), a branching observer perceives a branching universe by corralling branches together — mathematically equivalating two branches to maintain the fiction that definite things happen — and causal invariance guarantees these branches will eventually merge so the observer's forced completions remain consistent; destructive interference occurs when a photon's paths land at opposite ends of branchial space so the observer cannot knit them together into a single photon.

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Stephen Wolfram

Evidence Quote

the reason that you're getting destructive interference is that you as an observer simply can't knit it together, to say there really is a photon here, it's like the photon has been just smashed into pieces that are scattered all over branchial space.

Source

155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental PhysicsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM

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