On Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 2:37:55 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 3:25 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> MWI doesn't say if a new universe is created instantaneously >>> >> >> *IMO, it surely does! Deutsch makes a right turn in his car, and >> immediately another universe is created where a copy of Deutsch makes a >> left turn* >> > > If you want to take the view that an entire new universe is created > instantaneously that's fine with MWI. > *Maybe fine with the MWI, but definitely not with GR, which you take as your inspiration on this issue. How can you apply GR and then claim the instantaneous creation of other worlds by the MWI? AG* > And if you want to take the view that the new creation only spreads > outward from the intersection where Professor Deutsch made his turn at the > speed of light then that's fine too because no observer anywhere in the > multiverse or outside of it (If that made any sense which it doesn't) > could tell the difference. > > > if General Relativity is correct and if empty space does contain >>> residual vacuum energy (both those things can only be determined through >>> observation and experimentation but the evidence is piling up that both >>> are correct) then the net amount of energy in the universe is indeed zero. >> >> >> *> What's your argument, * > > > I've already given it. > > *> or please repeat and refine it * > > > Which part didn't you understand? > *I'll re-read it and see if it makes sense to me. Offhand, your entire argument seemed qualitative, asserting but never proving "precisely zero" for total gravitational energy. AG * > > John K Clark > -- 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/064695a6-a4a5-4944-9ce4-4d176191feb2n%40googlegroups.com.
