Richard and Stephen, ER=EPR will have a hell of a time explaining the soul since the soul doesn't exist!
Edgar On Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:58:22 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Stephen Paul King < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > Something to think about: > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205142218.htm#! > > Yes. String theory is the great white hope. Lubos Motl even suggests that > ER=EPR may explain the concept of the soul. > http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/12/quantum-gravity-and-afterlife.html > > > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Liz R <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > > On Saturday, 28 December 2013 06:18:26 UTC+13, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > > Many worlds is probably the most outlandishly improbable theory of all > time, and should have been laughed out of existence as soon as it was > proposed. Do > > > Fortunately, science is not decided on what seems probable to humans, or > we would never have realised that there is anything except the Earth and > some lights in the sky. The MWI is very far from the most outlandishly > improbable theory of all time, I can name a dozen ontological theories that > are more outlandish without even asking WIkipedia, such as the idea that > the world was created by the shenannigans of various gods. > > you actually understand what it says or implies? Basically that every > quantum event that ever occured in the history of the universe spawns an > entire new universe of all its possible outcomes and every event in every > one of those new universes does the same. This immediately exponentially > escalates in the first few minutes of the universe into uncountable new > universes and has been expanding exponentially ever since over 14.7 billion > years! Just try to calculate the > > > The MWI is a straight interpretation of our best theory of matter - an > interpretation that removes any extra assumptions (wave function collapse, > pilot waves, wave-particle duality etc). It is simply what the relevant > equations say, converted without interpretation to human language (if one > leaves aside the actual phrase "many worlds", which is misleading). The > equations imply that all possible outcomes occur for a given quantum event, > or to be exact that the entities we regard as particles are in fact waves, > capable of interfering with themselves, but only detectable (I suppose > "entanglable" would be a better word) by a process of localisation that is, > I'm told, neatly explained by decoherence. This implies that the universal > wavefunction is constantly spreading and differentiating. This is generally > characterised as "parallel universes coming into existence" bu > > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
