On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Richard and Stephen, > > ER=EPR will have a hell of a time explaining the soul since the soul > doesn't exist! > > Edgar > > > How do you know it doesn't exist? Jason > > > 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]> 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]> 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. > -- 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.
