Le 17-avr.-08, à 19:45, Telmo Menezes a écrit :
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Bruno Marchal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Are you saying that the second law is verified in each of all >> "branches" of the (quantum) multiverse? > > I'm not saying that. OK. Sorry. > >> I would say the second law is >> statistical, and is verified in most branches. In the MWI applied to >> quantum field it seems to me that there can be branches with an >> arbitrarily high number of photon creation without annihilation, and >> this for each period of time. > > Yes, I would tend to agree with that, although I can't say I'm 100% > convinced. Anyway I'm a relative newcomer to this list so I don't feel > I have an informed opinion yet. Need to catch up with all the > arguments. Also have a thesis to finish, which tends to get in the way > :) I can understand. Academy is like Democracy, as described by Churchill. The worst except for the rest. I wish you good luck (or shit, as in the french tradition). > > I'm just arguing that the experiment with the rifle and the geiger > counter does not imply any second law anomaly. Yes, you are "forcing" > your consciousness to "move" to states where the atom never decays, > but if you consider the larger system, which one? the quantum one. > entropy is increasing as normal > because of the preparation and maintenance of the apparatus needed for > the experiment. > > Do you think this makes sense? I am not sure I understand. I do agree with Brent Meker's comment though. If you agree with him, take his answer as mine (hope Brent does not mind). Best, bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
