"Yes, I have strong feelings against it, but I have to qualify that by saying that in this particular Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen situation there is some merit in the many-universes interpretation, in tackling the problem of how something can apparently happen far away sooner than it could without faster-than-light signalling. If, in a sense, everything happens, all choices are realized (somewhere among all the parallel universes), and no selection is made between the possible results of the experiment until later (which is what one version of the many-universes hypothesis implies), then we get over this difficulty."
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John S. Bell, interview in The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics (1986) edited by P. C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown
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