On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I take a break from the god-wars to propose an idea that I have been >> thinking about. This is probably both silly and unoriginal, but here >> it goes... >> >> If we assume the MWI, isn't it the case that we should expect the >> world to become weirder as we get older? My reasoning is simple: the >> older you are, the lower your measure, the more specific events have >> to "conspire" to keep you alive. As this specificity accumulates, it >> increasingly bias the possible worlds. >> >> One could even use a chart like the one below to predict where "the >> weirdening" would accelerate. Of course this is not something that can >> be directly measured, but still fun to think about. >> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_table#/media/File:Data_from_National_Vital_Statistics_Report_tPx.png >> >> Do you guys think this idea has any merit? >> >> Regarding the season, my wishes for you all: live long and prosper! >> Telmo. >> > > I think Max Tegmark's "Our Mathematical Universe" has a section on this > talking about what strange things you might expect to see in an iterated > quantum suicide experiment, from power outages to asteroid impacts. > > https://books.google.com/books?id=FSMUAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=our%20mathematical%20universe&pg=PT412#v=onepage&q=asteroid&f=false
Thanks Jason, haven't read it yet. Will try to soon. > Jason > > -- > 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
