Jason writes:
> William wrote: > > A simple way of picturing this, would be that at the big bang; the > > universe is 1 piece of paper, and from then on, every second, the > > piece(s) of paper is cut in half; giving 1, 2, 4, 8, ... universes. The > > total area of paper remains the same and all the pieces get smaller all > > the time, this means that the chance of being in a particular universe > > as the universe splitting progresses, even decreases :). > > I consider this a very insightful way of looking at it. Starting with > the universe's intitial conditions defined to have probability 1, every > branched history that follows will occur with some fractional > probability, and the sum of all the histories in any single point of > time will all have equal probabilities. In effect every point of time > would be equally weighted statistically. But your measure in the forward time direction will still be decreasing as versions of you die off. Stathis Papaioannou _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
