"Or rather, did this universe better fit the decoherent histories interpretation? There was only one universe, but many histories?"
Under the many-histories interpretation, there was only one universe, but many histories.
Within the same span of time, every particle experienced many different histories. Yet beneath the macroscopic scale, those histories canceled one another out, leaving only one definite history—people could perceive only one definite history.
All other histories had lost contact with the observer. They had decohered.
—Could it be that this universe fit this interpretation?
—Was the sensation described by His Majesty the Dragon Emperor regarding the precognizers actually many histories? Was the special nature of precognizers that, in their eyes, multiple histories could be coupled together?
Wang Qi quickly stopped thinking along those lines.
He suddenly felt a contradiction. Perhaps it was merely an a priori feeling?
Wang Qi closed his eyes, severed part of his thoughts, and reflected on himself once more.
Many Worlds [MWI] and Decoherent Histories [DH] had both been hypotheses that received little attention in their early days, only to become increasingly valued as history progressed. Researchers in the field had now mostly focused their attention on these two theories. Their advantages were astonishingly alike: both could be regarded as theories in which "collapse did not exist."
—Of course, there were even more researchers who believed themselves unable to make a choice.
These two theories made the fewest concessions regarding "reality."
Many Worlds and many histories were often mentioned in the same breath. Some even believed the two interpretations had similar problems. It might even be said that there was no clear dividing line between them.
Generally speaking, astrophysicists and Quantum Gravity researchers preferred Many Worlds, while quantum physicists leaning more toward applications preferred many histories.
But at the present stage, there was nothing