In a message dated 08/12/2000 9:37:31 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> As to the question or whether measure increases or remains constant at death - > > I assume here one means the measure of a particular person (the one who died) > . > The idea of decrease already assumes a time order. From a 4-dimensional > space-time viewpoint the person's measure is constant. Along the world-line > of > the person (following any particular branch) there is the death of that > person; > so if you refer to measures on space-like hypersurfaces later than that > death, > the persons measure must be zero. This seems so straightforward that I > wonder > if I have mistaken your meaning? I think this is Jacques' approach. It is an absolutist point of view which assumes an external observer looking at the death of a person and observing the "trimming" of his branches. The following is the relativistic approach which requires a first person perspective: what would the person who "dies" sees along the "few" branches where he is still alive. Does he see a decrease in his own measure (as the independent observer sees) or does the universe appear to him to be more or less always the same? My contention is that branches are infinitally divisible, and no matter how many times he has died, there will still be an infinity of branches still available to him. FROM THE SURVIVOR'S PERSPECTIVE, the world appears the same. If he had an instrument to measure "measure" he would not detect any difference. In fact the infinity in the number of branches makes the design of such an instrument, a physical impossibility. BTW, in Astronomy, the constancy of the universe with position and orientation is called the Cosmological Principle. I am proposing to extend this principle to the MW. We have all in fact died many times already, except that we are not aware of it. So, dying a few more times should not change things much anyways. George Levy
