Bruno:  I doubt a photon needs to double his energy to go through two slits

Richard: You should be ashamed

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 23 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Richard Ruquist wrote:
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> Yes, and as the branches multiply, so does the energy.
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> I doubt this, but eventually this will depend on how we define energy. I
> doubt a photon needs to double his energy to go through two slits, and I
> doubt Shor algorithm needs energy to handle 10^500 parallel superposition
> state. Energy is a local relative (gauge) notion, which I am not sure can
> be easily applied to the whole configuration space, which energy can be put
> a zero.
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> Of course with computationalism there is only an arithmetical reality, and
> all physicalness is a view from inside. All branches of all computations
> including the one with oracle are run in the arithmetical reality, and it
> is clear, imo, that energy is only an internal relative notion. Of course
> we need to justify why the reversible computations win the limit measure
> "game".
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> Bruno
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> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:52 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 21 November 2014 23:07, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> It seems, yes. In our branch. But not in the physical reality as a
>>>> whole, where information and energy are constant, and arbitrary I would 
>>>> say.
>>>>
>>>> Energy is not constant in the MWI multiverse.
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>>> Energy is not constant in a general-relativistic universe.
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>> I believe energy is approximately conserved within a branch of the
>> multiverse, in the MWI view? The "approximately" being because branches are
>> only approximately defined?
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