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Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 20:53:12 +1000 From: Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ricardo Aler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Theory of Nothing In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Not at all. Criticism is a good thing, particularly when asked in the open-minded way you did. The particular questions you've asked, I've already thought about, and mostly addressed in the book, but someone, somewhere is likely to ask the question I can't answer, and from that one can learn! The "derivation" of QM depends on all the principles previously introduced: multiple realities, observer measure (and the consequent Occam razor theorem), TIME, Darwinian evolution and the anthropic principle. It also depends on some (ie non-contentious parts) of set theory and the Kolmogorov probability axioms, but that is seomwhat technical, so I relegated this to the appendix (and the Foundations of Physics paper). Vic's "point of view invariance" principle is a special case of Occam's razor - one should expect invariance as the most general/likely situation, but some symmetry breaking is required by the anthropic principle. At the time I was writing my own book, I had only read draft chapters of Comprehensible Cosmos, so wasn't quite aware of the importance of POVI at the time. Cheers On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:23:25PM +0200, Ricardo Aler wrote: > Dear Russell, > > I hope not to have sound too rude (or close minded :) ). I actually > enjoyed reading your book. In addition to the QM part, I enjoyed > mostly the open evolution chapter. > > My attempt was not to critizise but to understand how much of QM > depends on a theory of observation and how much depends on other > principles you use (generality, Occam's, etc). But perhaps I was too > confrontational, if that's the case, I apologize. > > Regards, > > Ricardo. > > > > >> > >> >Good questions Ricardo. I've taken the liberty of posting this > >> >response to the everything-list and to avoid-L, as the points you > >> >raise are of general interest. > >> > >> Yes please. I belonged to the avoid-l many years ago, until I realized > >> that I was dedicating more time to it than I should :). I guess Jim > >> Humphreys must still be there and converted to atheism :). Say hi to > >> Vic Stenger. > >> > >> Cheers. > >> > >> -- > >> Ricardo. > >> ------------- > >> mailto: "Ricardo Aler Mur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> http://www.uc3m.es/uc3m/dpto/INF/aler > > > >-- > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > >Mathematics > >UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > Ricardo. > ------------- > mailto: "Ricardo Aler Mur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.uc3m.es/uc3m/dpto/INF/aler -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
