Many Worlds: Quantum Theory and Reality? IÑAKI SAN PEDRO1

Recent years have seen a good deal of work done on one of the most mind blowing and conceptually radical views in quantum mechanics, namely the ‘many worlds ’ interpretation of quantum mechanics. Many worlds was first proposed by Hugh Everett III in his long PhD dissertation, which only some years later and after significative shortening came to be published as the ‘Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics ’ (Everett, 1957)