Asimov reckoned that "homeworld travel" would eventually lead to the discovery of a version of the homeworld that had been invaded by aliens who had gone to the trouble of inventing interstellar travel...
I forget the name of the story. On 18 November 2014 01:21, spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > Remember the 90's US scifi series, called Sliders? Like that. Otherwise, > we're dealing with conjecture. Or the teapot circling Jupiter, which we can > do today, if we spent the money. Maybe Fermi's Great Silence is because its > easier to trade with different versions of one's homeworld, then put the > time and energy into interstellar travel, or they achieve world-line travel > and destroy themselves with conflicts, interworld-world. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, Nov 17, 2014 6:51 am > Subject: Re: Can we test for parallel worlds? > > > On 16 Nov 2014, at 22:54, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > > If we can't interact with world 2, then its as if it doesn't exist. > > > Then it would not interfere. It is the whole point of the quantum: the > different terms of the waves can interfere, so we can't make them > disappear, even if we can't have branch-branch interaction: se still have > the branch-branch interferences. > > Bruno > > > > Just as if there was a super civilization in the Sombrero Galaxy, but > they can never interact with us, nor we, with them. It resolves, from a > human point of view to Never-Never Land. On the other hand if we somehow > can do FTL travel or communication, or build Hyper-Tesla magnets and thus > open up worldline commerce, then its a mathematical hack used by physicists > to amaze family and friends! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: LizR <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 4:46 pm > Subject: Re: Can we test for parallel worlds? > > The MWI can also be viewed as not positing that any new worlds are > created, but that the multiverse is a continuum that can differentiate > between previously identical worlds, and can continue to do this forever, > that being a property of a continuum. > > How does Wiseman (appropriate name!) distinguish their theory from the > MWI experimentally. > > (PS Apologies I don't have time to read the paper at the moment.) > > > On 17 November 2014 08:32, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting speculative physics… that makes claims that parallel worlds >> may be testable. >> >> “A new theory, proposed by Howard Wiseman, Director of the Centre of >> Quantum Dynamics at Griffith University, is different. No new universes are >> ever created. Instead many worlds have existed, side-by-side, since the >> beginning of time. “ >> >> Regarding the interference patterns detected by the single electron >> double slit experiment (first performed in 1974 at University of Bologna) >> >> According to Wiseman and his team this interaction between parallel >> worlds leads to just the type of interference patterns observed – implying >> electrons are not waves after all. They have supported their theory by >> running computer simulations of the two-slit experiment using up to 41 >> interacting worlds. “It certainly captured the essential features of peaks >> and troughs in the right places,” says Wiseman. >> >> https://cosmosmagazine.com/physical-sciences/can-we-test-parallel-worlds >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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