On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:05 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/2/2014 10:55 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > What do you think about the idea that the whole course of the universe >> was set at that (near) singularity at the beginning of the universe? >> > > What do you mean by universe? Clearly we don't remain (or aren't in) > just a single possible ((future) history). > > > I mean multiverse. How does it get started? > I believe in block time, so there is no start or end. I think there is a collection of states and stable patterns that exist and perceive, within even larger stable patterns. > There's just this one pure ray in Hilbert space - what does it mean for > it to get projected onto different subspaces? > Is it wrong to say something to the effect of all solutions to the Shrodinger equation are satisfied? > The Wheeler-Dewitt equation is famously timeless, so it's not clear why > anything happens at all. Or do you hypothesize an eternal past? > Wheeler-Dewitt showed what Einstein and Feynman with his diagrams suspected, and what I think many thought experiments can help show, that time, as something that changes what exists, does not exist. Jason -- 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.
