Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 23:12 21/07/04 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: In reply to posts by Hal Finney and Bruno Marchal-- Hal: I found the paper you referred to, and it certainly has some very interesting ideas, for example the idea that the arrow of time is actually an anthropic artefact. I admit that I have much

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
In reply to posts by Hal Finney and Bruno Marchal-- Hal: I found the paper you referred to, and it certainly has some very interesting ideas, for example the idea that the arrow of time is actually an anthropic artefact. I admit that I have much reading to do if I am to understand the paper prop

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-20 Thread John M
t; To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 4:03 AM Subject: Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology? > At 20:46 17/07/04 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >I have been wondering about the possibility that all possible worlds > >exist, but sequentially

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 20:46 17/07/04 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I have been wondering about the possibility that all possible worlds exist, but sequentially rather than simultaneously, under a conservative cosmology with assumptions as follows: 1. There exists one, and only one, real, physical universe; I

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-17 Thread "Hal Finney"
Stathis Papaioannou writes: > On 18 July 2004 Hal Finney wrote: > > We had some discussion a while back about a paper which proposed some > > similar ideas, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0208013, Disturbing > > implications of a cosmological constant. If you want to look in the > > archives, the

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 18 July 2004 Hal Finney wrote: QUOTE- We had some discussion a while back about a paper which proposed some similar ideas, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0208013, Disturbing implications of a cosmological constant. If you want to look in the archives, the thread was called "Doomsday-like argume

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-17 Thread "Hal Finney"
Stathis - > I would have guessed > that as the universe expands, chemical and nuclear reactions are less likely > to occur, in the same way as chemical reaction rates are proportional to the > concentration the reagents. On the other hand, it is not clear to me how > more exotic processes such