On 22 August 2014 08:00, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:00 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There is nothing logically inconsistent about a fire breathing dragon >>> powered by a nuclear reactor in its belly, but that doesn't prove that such >>> an animal actually exists. >>> >> >> > Unless you believe that QM necessarily entails a multiverse, in which >> case they exist somewhere. >> > > The multiverse doesn't care if I believe in it or not, it either exists or > it doesn't. Although I could be wrong I think the multiverse idea is > logically consistent, but even if I'm right and it is that doesn't prove it > exists. >
Ri-i-i-ight, fine, if you're going to nitpick the phraseology that's your privilege. > > > a consequence of the multiverse is that all physically possible events >> happen within it. >> > > Yes but it's not always obvious what is physically possible and what is > not. Is it physically possible that Germany could have won the second world > war? Yes. Is it physically possible that 2+2=5 ? No. Is it physically > possible that the second law of thermodynamics is wrong? No. Is it > physically possible that the first law of thermodynamics is wrong? I don't > know. > So it isn't obvious. (The second law can be wrong for arbitrary amounts of time, actually.) > > > It's possible (if comp is correct) that >> > > Who cares, I don't give a hoot in hell about scientific baby talk like > "comp". > > Or about normal scientific talk either, to judge by your comments above. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
