Re: Retiring the universe

2014-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2014, at 17:30, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: Amanda Gefter wrote: More importantly, it could offer us a better conceptual grasp of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics defies understanding because it allows things to hover in superpositions of mutually exclusive states, like when a

Re: Retiring the universe

2014-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2014, at 19:40, LizR wrote: I must admit I thought the MWI had already retired the universe. Hmm... Physicists replace it with a multiverse, which is a new form of a Universe. But with comp even the multiverse might need to retire, at least as a fundamental primitive reality.

Re: Retiring the universe

2014-01-16 Thread LizR
I must admit I thought the MWI had already retired the universe. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.

Re: Retiring the universe

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 8:30 AM, Gabriel Bodeen wrote: Leonard Susskind eventually solved the information paradox by insisting that we restrict our description of the world to either the region of spacetime outside the black hole's horizon or to the interior of the black hole. Either one is