All paths lead to histories. https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9210004.pdf
@philipthrift On Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 7:43:46 AM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Friday, October 4, 2019 at 5:27:15 PM UTC-5, Eva wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> I wonder what you think about Milo Wollf proposals? There is not a lot >> crittical elaborations of his statemants on the internet. >> Here is one and very brief: >> >> http://www.paradigmshiftnow.net/fundamental_reality/critical_notes_on_Milo_Wolff.htm >> > > > Some years ago Wolff's ideas came up. I judged largely that one should not > put a whole lot of stock in them. He has these ideas about incoming and > outgoing waves with every event in the universe or some such thing. As for > these being useful physics there is not a lot there. With every decoherent > event or a measurement this happens. Below is a path integration diagram > which illustrates how a summation of all possible histories of a > decoherence on some set of paths is equal to the whole. This might be > similar to Wolff's ideas, but expressed in more rigorous terms. > > Mach's principle is a guiding idea that motivated Einstein. In a sense the > mass-energy “out there” generates curvature of spacetime that influences > mass-energy “here.” So the idea has a bit of relevance. However, the full > idea of matter everywhere establishing inertial locally has not really > materialized. There is no general principle whereby a local timelike > direction can be parallel translated everywhere in general spacetime > manifolds. Since mass-energy is the generator of time translations, energy > or mass-energy it is then not possible to formulate a principle quite in > the form that Ernst Mach may have envisioned. > > LC > > [image: path integral on two sets of paths.PNG] > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/292c3c3f-fc8b-44b1-8182-696e922c746e%40googlegroups.com.
