Splitting the Universe

Bryce DeWitt ... wrote a letter to him complaining that the real world obviously didn’t ‘branch’, since we never experience such things. Everett replied with a reference to Copernicus’s similarly daring idea that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than vice-versa: ‘I can’t resist asking: do you feel the motion of the Earth?’ DeWitt had to admit that was a pretty good response. -Splitting the Universe

good concise summary of Everett ideas. and of his life - too:

Everett died in 1982, aged 51, of a sudden heart attack. He had not lived a healthy lifestyle, over-indulging in eating, smoking and drinking. His son Mark Oliver Everett ... has said that he was originally upset with his father for not taking better care of himself. He later changed his mind:

I realise that there is a certain value in my father’s way of life. He ate, smoked and drank as he pleased, and one day he just suddenly and quickly died. Given some of the other choices I’d witnessed, it turns out that enjoying yourself and then dying quickly is not such a hard way to go.

Hugh Everett III

The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III

Splitting the Universe - good summary

in accordance with his wishes

But Everett didn't live to see Gell-Mann's work or Deutsch's. Everett died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-one. In accordance with his wishes, his family had him cremated, and left the ashes out with the trash. - What is Real by Adam Becker

see also good joke and И как один умрем

fuels the stars?

This work led to fissioning of rare isotope, uranium 235, and also of a new element, called plutonium. Atomic fission of these metals set of a chain reaction, unbinding the explosive energy that fuels the stars. - Peter Byrne in The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III

italics are mine - vs

i used to think it's fusion that fuels the stars somehow...

good joke

Frank protested that Einstein invented the positivist approach to physics in his theories of relativity. "A good joke should not be repeated too often," - Einstein replied. - pg 173

While it's hard to say what Bohr's position actually was—there's a small mountain of papers attempting to decipher his views on any given subject, and few of them agree... - pg 176

- What is Real by Adam Becker

вот уж действительно “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

"What, precisely, Kuhn advocated in place of positivism is not entirely clear." - pg 183

see also

. My aim is to sort out, in at least a preliminary way, what precisely Kuhn can mean by 'incommensurability'...
. There have been major arguments about what precisely Kuhn meant by “different worlds”...

@ various sources

...pulling a few strings he managed to get her passport back... - pg 65
...now Einstein pulled some strings to set Bohm free.

вообще книжка очень познавательная в плане воздействия политики на науку и относительно общей атмосферы в American & European academia. как делаются дела, как себя вести.

The Everett interpretation explains well how the computer's behaviour follows from its having delegated subtasks to copies of itself in other universes. - pg 253 [this is David Deutsch saying - vs]

see also in accordance with his wishes

краткое изложение событий, связанных с альтернативными интерпретациями оснований квантовой механики - тут: The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in Postwar Transatlantic Physics [On the influence of the United States on the lack of interest in alternative interpretations of quantum mechanics, 1950 – 1970] see longer quotes @ permanent position