I know a question asking if Santa exists sounds childish but parallel universe theory is a thing. So even though Santa doesn’t live at OUR north pole, does he live at the north pole in one of infinite parallel universes?

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    1 month ago

    According to the quantum many-worlds interpretation, such a world would only exist if it could arise due to a random quantum fluctuation at some point in the past history of our own world—which doesn’t seem plausible in this case.

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        1 month ago

        I’m trying to apply Wheeler’s version of the MWI, which seems to me to be the most common one—but I think Wheeler’s version is a misunderstanding of Everett’s. So if that’s what you mean, I agree.