On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:23:00PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 14 February 2014 15:40, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > And it implies there was no reality before humans. > > > > If by "human" you mean observers in general, then yes - it does imply > > that. There is no reality without observers. > > > > What about the CMBR? When it was created there were (presumably) no > observers in existence in the universe. Are you saying it wouldn't exist if > we hadn't evolved to detect it (e.g. if humans hadn't evolved, or if we had > never invented radio telescopes) ?
Yes - exactly. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] 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 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.
