On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 09:54:10PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > On 11/11/2012 4:45 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >And many good reasons for thinking it is possible in a Multiverse, as > >pointed out by David Deutsch. Time travel into the past is simply > >equivalent to going somewhere else in the Multiverse, or to use the > >Borge Library of Babel analogy, selecting a book from the Library of > >Babel. > > > >It doesn't run into the grandfather paradox, because even when you go > >back into the past, and kill your grandfather, because multiple > >futures really do exist in the multiverse, you will just end up in a > >history that never has the past you growing up in it, just the current > >you living your life from where you reentered history. Meanwhile, your > >childhood will still exist in a history where you failed to kill your > >grandfather, or never even made the attempt. > > Just because it doesn't produce a contradiction doesn't mean it's > nomologically possible. > > Brent >
>From all of the above, a suitably high fidelity virtual reality generator will suffice - bizarre as that seems. Whilst it may be beyond current day technology, I don't see it as being nomologically so. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales 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 everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
