Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread scerir
David Barrett-Lennard Isn't non-locality simply associated with the ability for the future to affect the past? Imo future and past means time, and light cones, etc. If there is no flow of time, there is no past, and no future. But I may be wrong. Because, at this level, as pointed out long

Re: Quantum immortality - pragmatics again.

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Hawthorne
All this talk of quantum immortality seems like anthropocentric wishful thinking to me. You are a process. All physical objects are best understood as slow processes. A life process is a very complex physical pattern, which is an arrangement of matter and energy in space-time, that has

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread scerir
David Barrett-Lennard According to QM, in small systems evolving according to the Hamiltonian, time certainly exists but there is no arrow of time within the scope of the experiment. In such small systems we can run the movie backwards and everything looks normal. Yes, but how small?

Re: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-13 Thread Eric Cavalcanti
Hi, - Original Message - From: Pete Carlton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings; this reply has taken some time... I don't quite agree with your point of view, and the reason is maybe similar to our disagreement in my statement: It is not useful to talk about 1st person experiences in

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: David Barrett-Lennard > According to QM, in small systems evolving according to the Hamiltonian, > time certainly exists but there is no arrow of time within the scope of > the experiment. In such small systems we can run the movie backwards > and everything looks normal. Yes, but

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Joao Leao
scerir wrote: David Barrett-Lennard > Isn't "non-locality" simply associated with > the ability for the "future" to affect the "past"? Imo future and past means time, and light cones, etc. If there is no flow of time, there is no past, and no future. The association between non-locality and

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Hal Finney
This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics. It follows that universes exist which follow the MWI; and universes exist where only one branch is real and where the

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread scerir
http://arXiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9501011 Both the protective and the weak-value experiments associated with this idea are now being tried out... -Joao Yes and they are testing the famous 3-quantum-boxes paradox http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310091 with related negative probabilities! Can a

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Joao Leao
Hal Finney wrote: This list is dedicated to exploring the implications of the prospect that all universes exist. According to this principle, universes exist with all possible laws of physics. It follows that universes exist which follow the MWI; and universes exist where only one branch is real

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
As I recall, Tegmark also said that there would be classically deterministic universes, with no quantum physics at all. So, it seems that an SAS in such a universe would have no reason to surmise a Level III multiverse. It makes you wonder what things we SASs don't know about, that might have

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
CORRECTION -- sorry -- Ben Udell. As I recall, Tegmark also said that there would be classically deterministic universes, with no quantum physics at all. So, it seems that an SAS in such a universe would have no reason to surmise a Level III multiverse. It makes you wonder what things we SASs

Re: Seeding life in the universe

2003-11-13 Thread Hal Finney
David Barrett-Lennard, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Given the idea of the ensemble for a TOE, it is only necessary that SAS's can exist - no matter how improbable. That they exist is of course an empirical fact. An SAS will find the universe is fine tuned in order for that SAS to exist.

Re: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread Hal Finney
Benjamin Udell, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: As I recall, Tegmark also said that there would be classically deterministic universes, with no quantum physics at all. So, it seems that an SAS in such a universe would have no reason to surmise a Level III multiverse. It makes you wonder what

RE: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
I'm sure we all agree that QM on its own is not the full story. Ditto with GR. Has anyone claimed to come up with a self consistent, complete description of our universe? Saying that all universes exist which follow the MWI is putting too much faith in a partial (and perhaps merely

RE: spooky action at a distance

2003-11-13 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
By small I meant small number of particles. - David -Original Message- From: scerir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2003 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: spooky action at a distance David Barrett-Lennard According to QM, in small systems evolving