Jack Mallah wrote: > Hi George. The everything list feels just like old times, no? Which is nice > in a way but has a big drawback - I can only take so much of arguing the same > old things, and being outnumbered. And that limit is approaching fast again. > At least I think your point here is new to the list. > I have also been overwhelmed by the volume on this list. The idea is not to take more than you can chew. > --- On Wed, 2/11/09, George Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One could argue that measure actually increases continuously and corresponds >> to the increase in entropy occurring in everyday life. So even if you are 90 >> or 100 years old you could still experience an increase in measure. >> > > I guess you are basing that on some kind of branch-counting idea. > > If that were the case, the Born Rule would fail. Perhaps the probability > rule would be more like proportionality to norm^2 exp(entropy) instead of > just norm^2. If that was it, then for example unstable nuclei would be > observed to decay a lot faster than the Born Rule predicts. >
Yes I am linking the entropy to MW branching. So if you start with a low entropy state such as the Big Bang or having $1 million after a QS your entropy is going to increase. (There are many ways I could spend that million). The number of possible states you can reach increases, hence your entropy increases. You say that the Born Rule would fail if measure *increases*. Here is a counterexample: Using your own argument I could say that the Born rule would fail if measure *decreases *according to function f(t). For example it could be norm^2 f(t) . So using your own argument since the Born rule is only norm^2 therefore measure stays constant? I do not understand why you say that the Born rule would fail. Linking entropy with measure may bring some interesting insights. Let's see how far we can go with this. George > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
