On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:23:00PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 14 February 2014 15:40, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > > And it implies there was no reality before humans. > > > > If by "human" you mean observers in general, then yes - it does imply > > that. There is no reality without observers. > > > > What about the CMBR? When it was created there were (presumably) no > observers in existence in the universe. Are you saying it wouldn't exist if > we hadn't evolved to detect it (e.g. if humans hadn't evolved, or if we had > never invented radio telescopes) ?
Yes - exactly. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
