On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:18:16PM -0800, George Levy wrote: > > The only way to talk meaningfully about measure is when you can compare > two situations from a third person point of view: for example, if you > witness someone die from a freak event you could conclude that he > continued living in a world with lower measure than yours. This is a > third person point of view. However, from that person's point of view > (first person), the freak event never happened and therefore he will > consider his measure to be just as high as yours. > > George
One can talk about relative measure between two observer moments connected via an accessibility relation from the first person. The computation of this relative measure (which will in fact be a probability distribution) is given by the Born rule. Absolute measure (which will be complex in general) is a pure 3rd person phenomenon, and not accessible to observer. I argue that the absolute measure can be identified with the magnitude and phase angle of the quantum mechanical statevector representing the observer moment. These quantities are usually considered unphysical, as they are inaccessible to the observer. Only relative phase angles can be measured. Such an identification (complex absolute measure with statefunction magnitude) appears to be a novel interpretation of QM ... 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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