On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:26:59AM +1200, LizR wrote: > > I'm told the worlds of the MWI include a vanishingly small proportion of > weird universes because decoherence gets rid of mixed states. I don't know > enough to say whether this is a viable explanation, I just have to accept > it - but this, or something like it, may be responsible for making the > white rabbits vastly improbable (there was something similar in Theory of > Nothing - which I see gets a plug from Max Tegmark in his latest book, by > the way, which I hope is to the good). I can't recall how TON got rid of > them (something to do with extra bits beyond those needed to specify a > stable universe being self-cancelling or not easily visible, or...?) >
That explains why sales of ToN have ticked up recently! I'm not going to try and explain in detail here how my White Rabbit busting argument works - the best explanation is still in my book, and a slightly earlier version of the same argument is in "Why Occams Razor". But I can give a hint that it involves the robust nature of observer's pattern recognition systems. Most of those "white rabbits" are indistinguishable from a little bit of noise around our normal stable observation. Only a vanishing few a truly extraordinary - white rabbits with waistcoats and pocket watches, or fire breathing dragons, and we're extremely unlikely to see these. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/d/optout.
