Hi Craig Weinberg Why not ? There are gravitational waves. But earthquakes usually initiate waves by the sudden release of potential energy.
[Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/14/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-13, 09:48:20 Subject: Re: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory On Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:56:25 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Hi Richard Ruquist EM waves are physical and exist in spacetime. You can capture them with an antenna, etc. Does an Earthquake capture a wave that is independent of the Earth? >From my view, the EM waves *are* the waving of the antenna in response to the >waving of a broadcasting antenna. Nothing more. There are no literal waves in >empty space. Matter is sensitive because matter is what it looks like when one >sensitivity interferes with another. To us, as embodied organisms, it looks >like a tangible obstacle to our tactile, aural, and optical senses. I see nothing especially wrong with the rest of you comments, you seem to have some interesting ideas. Thoughts travel instantly, but EM waves are physical (electrons) and so must travel at the speed of light. Thoughts don't travel. They are always 'here'. Craig [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] 1/13/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Richard Ruquist Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-12, 10:33:11 Subject: Re: MWI as an ontological error, it should be TwoAspects Theory EM waves and fields clearly exist in spacetime. Yet I would classify them along with quantum waves as part of the quantum mind and nonphysical. The photon particle and quantum particles appear to bridge the gap between the physical and the mind in a mind/body duality or as Roger puts it, a dual aspect theory. What I picture is that if everything happens instantly in the quantum mind, quantum and EM waves can collapse instantly into something the size of particles so that they may interact with other particles at the Planck scale. I think this is a necessary step, a collapse of waves to a particle size, even for MWI, in order to obtain multiple physical worlds. So it does not rule out MWI. But if waves can collapse instantly in the quantum mind, then the Feynman method of cancelling the infinities of Quantum Electrodynamics, equivalent to Cramer's Transactional Analysis, can be used to obtain a single world. The anti-particles that come back instantly from the future, so to speak, may cancel out all the extra worlds of MWI. Now it took some intelligence for Feynman to make his method work. So I imagine that the quantum mind must possess some form of consciousness and intelligence to choose which anti-particles are needed to cancel all the quantum states but one in any particle-particle interaction. I suspect that the quantum mind in each of us possesses similar consciousness. Moreover, I have come to accept the notion of a few consciousness investigators that consciousness is the energy of the quantum mind. I base my acceptance on how I focus my own consciousness to accomplish almost anything. It's like just putting out the energy of consciousness helps thoughts to emerge. Intelligence and free will may differ from consciousness but such intention can guide consciousness. Therefore intelligence and free will may have a deeper source. Richard On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > Hi Roger, > > How can you have a wave without some notion of spatial/temporal dimensions? > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Roger Clough wrote: >> >> Hi everything-list, >> >> I don't believe that Descartes would accept the MWI. >> Here's why: >> >> I think that the ManyWorldsInterpretation of QM is incorrect, >> due to the mistaken notion (IMHO) that quantum waves >> are physical waves, so that everything is physical and materialistic. >> >> This seems to deny "quantum weirdness" observed >> in the two-slit experiment. Seemingly if both the wave >> and the photon are physical, there should be nothing weird >> happening. >> >> My own view is that the weirdness arises because the >> waves and the photons are residents of two completely >> different but interpenetrating worlds, where: >> >> 1) the photon is a resident of the physical world, >> where by physical I mean (along with Descartes) >> "extended in space", >> >> 2) the quantum wave in nonphysical, being a resident of >> the nonphysical world (the world of mind), which has no >> extension in space. >> >> Under these conditions, there is no need >> to create an additional physical world, since each >> can exist as aspects of the the same world, >> one moving in spactime and being physical, the other, like >> mind, moving simulataneously in the nonphysical world >> beyond spacetime. >> >> [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] >> 1/12/2013 >> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> everything-li...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-li...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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