On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 11:15 AM Philip Benjamin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The whole idea of multiverse is contrary to all laws of logic My hunch is that Many Worlds Is correct but I could be wrong, but right or wrong it doesn't violate any law of logic, it's odd but not paradoxical and we already know from experiment that whatever the true interpretation of Quantum Mechanics turns out to be it's going to be odd, very very odd. > > *and the fundamental physical law of conservation of mass and energy.* > Unlike the Second Law Of Thermodynamics which we know from pure logic must be true a violation in the law of conservation of mass and energy would not violate any laws of logic. And even before Quantum Mechanics came along we knew from General Relativity that the law of conservation of mass-energy only holds true locally not globally. The universe is expanding so photons of light get stretched to a longer wavelength and photons with a longer wavelength have less energy, so where did that energy go? It didn't go anywhere, it just disappeared. And now we know that the universe is accelerating, so where did the energy for that acceleration come from? It came from empty space. It's still true that if a spherical region of space of fixed size is in thermal equilibrium then the amount of energy entering that sphere will equal the amount of energy leaving it, it's just that now more space has been created outside that sphere and thus there is more energy. >* Augustine’s consciousness was instantly transformed form paganism to > non-paganism* > Personally I don't think the change from polytheism to monotheism was much of an advance, both ideas are silly but polytheism is more fun, it makes for better comic books. John K Clark See my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > -- 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/CAJPayv1j09kYeY9pU1pb00UcfPSO9KDuC9MtGhv1mJETtoehxw%40mail.gmail.com.
