On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:34:30AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [RS] > Interestingly, someone pointed me at a paper by Esche the other day, > arguing that alternative "projection postulates" are compatible with > the MWI. The precise alternative projection postulate they supplied > turns out to be riddled with white rabbits - which makes me speculate > that the Born rule is precisely what you need to kill off all the > white rabbits in the MWI. > > [GK] > I can't say I follow you here. MWI + Projection postulates should > reproduce > regular Copenhagenian QM since MWI is basically QM - Projection > Postulates! > Now killing white rabbits with the Born rule!??? If that could be > done, seems to > me, would obviate all the need for MWI in the first place, no? >
Don't worry too much - I'm indulging in a bit of idle speculation for the benefit of Brent, amongst others. See my post msg07791.html (available from http://www.mail-archive.com/everything-list@eskimo.com/msg07791.html as the other archive appears to be out of action). Cheers -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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