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Maybe, finally, after all these years of waiting, we will learn just exactly what “Quantum Presbyterianism” is:
Homer: [opens door to find Kang and Kodos standing there] Hello — oh great. Mormons.
Kang: Actually, we’re Quantum Presbyterians…
I’m thinking it involves a doctrine which says that you are spiritually doomed to branches of the wavefunction which are condemned by God, but the divine intervention of God can lead you to those branches which are not condemned. Or something like that.
“Spider pig, spider pig…”
Here’s my proposed definition. Presbyterianism is distinguished amongst branches of Christianity by virtue of the belief in *predestination*. They believe you are chosen to be a believer before you are born.
Now in quantum mechanics there is a loophole to Bell’s theorem where, if there is no independent (“free will”) choices of settings, then a conspiracy at the time of the big bang could cause all matter to evolve in just the way such that we now get fooled into thinking we have this free will choice, and that QM implies nonlocality, but in fact we don’t and it doesn’t. I suggest we call people who believe in this conspiracy “Quantum Presbyterians”. From what little I’ve read of ‘t Hooft’s proposals for a deterministic local hidden variable theory, it seems he is a Quantum Presbyterian…
Awesome! I think you may have nailed it.