Well, as long as you brought personality into your observations, Lubos Motl is not a Left schmuck like Carroll or Larry Krauss. having said this, Caroll may have indeed come up with a fix for observers in the Everett MWI interpretation of quantum mechanics. Motl the Czech, is a physicist that needs more credit not criticism. Carroll does have the smugness factor going on, and whatever his politics, I find this disagreeable myself. I will, emotionally, side with Maimon on this, simply because I don't fully trust Carroll, in the same sense that you are suspicious of Lubos Motl. But, on all of this-you could be well-right.
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <[email protected]> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sent: Wed, Mar 11, 2015 9:08 pm Subject: Carroll and Motul An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and providing a solution to the Boltzmann brain problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFy6Ben0Ho Note that toward the end he seems to require a conscious observer to bottom out the epistemology, i.e. to have a measurement actually made. Be sure to listen to the Q&A too. Coincidentally, I came across Lubos Motul's discussion of MWI in which he has an extended argument with Ron Maimon. I don't like Lubos's politics or his style or argument which is arrogant and bombastic. In this case he is being very critical of Sean Carroll whom is a very nice guy and I do like - but I think Lubos makes some fair points. Brent -- 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.
