Hugh Everett’s work is still controversial, but I think that he was right and that the wavefunction never collapses. I also think that he’ll one day be recognized as a genius on par with Newton and Einstein—at least in most parallel universes. Unfortunately, in this particular universe, his work was almost completely dismissed and ignored for over a decade. He didn’t get a job in physics, became rather bitter and withdrawn, smoked and drank too much, and died of an early heart attack in 1982.
