Re: a possible paradox

2003-11-04 Thread scerir
[me] Principles of World Theory say, more or less, that: [...] [Bruno] Very nice. Except perhaps that it is the principle of the Old World Theory, implicit in Aristotle and Leibniz, where all the worlds are accessible from each other. It is formalised by the modal logic S5. [...] I'll do my

RE: a possible paradox

2003-11-02 Thread Alberto Gómez
Hi, I´m new here. Please accept this source of extra noise in your mailbox in the hope to be useful Federico Marulli wrote: So we can try to reason upon some examples which has a meaning from a physical point of view. For instance, we can think about the second principle of thermodynamics,

Re: a possible paradox

2003-11-02 Thread Julian Suggate
Brent Meeker wrote: Even the probability of observing a single large scale violation of the laws of probability is vanishingly small. According to *our* laws of probability, that is. But how can you make recourse to our laws of probability if there are infinitely many universes which have

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-31 Thread Joao Leao
: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: a possible paradox Actually I wasn't thinking about physically impossible things happening very rarely (QM) but only about regular physics vs probability of things happening. If you consider quantum mechanics you are right in an infinite universe

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread scerir
Federico: The paradox consists of the fact that the theory of multiverses tells us that there must be infinite observers who experiment other physical laws. There is not only the possibility of being wrong, it is the model itself which proves to be wrong. In fact it tells us that there are

Fw: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Mirai Shounen
Any reason this list does not have a reply-to set to the mailing list address? my message mistakenly sent to scerir I think two things are being confused. First, the laws of physics, second, the laws of probability. A gas particle follow physical rules (movement, bumping, thermal vibrations)

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread scerir
Any reason this list does not have a reply-to set to the mailing list address? Better push the reply to all? Btw, I wrote: Now the question seems (to me) to be this one. What about the density matrix of the people A in the ***world*** A, representing some knowledge about the ***world*** B?

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Federico Marulli
-- Federico Marulli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello everybody, I read all your messages and I would like to say something about them. I think that the concept of magic universes considered by Matt King and Hal Finney and the demonstration that we are not in one of them is improper. If these magic

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Matt King
Hi Hal, I agree with everything you wrote about duplication...but I have to take issue with your last point. Hal Finney wrote: Another interesting result of this paper concerned daughter universes. In some models, it may be possible to trigger the formation of new inflating regions which

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Matt King
arbitrarily close to perfect - and does it make a difference? Stathis From: James N Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: a possible paradox Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:52:30 -0800 quicky: does the multiverses version of existence include perfect duplications - included

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread scerir
Federico: I'm agree that informations are always subjective, but a physical or matematical model should not be too. And perhaps the paradox I propose is a four-order one. The problem in fact is that all the conclusions we could think are consequence of the hypotesis of applying the

[Fwd: a possible paradox]

2003-10-30 Thread Joao Leao
Joao Leao wrote: Your Principles are correct but the wording is not: you should change all your use of *possible* to 'contingent' and qualify as 'possible' instead all the invocations of 'world' not qualified with *actual*. This because possible/actual is a distinction that applies to worlds

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread James N Rose
Thanks, Matt, yes it helps. It helps me see that the math becomes problematic under the interpretations. Arbitrary constraints tint and skew what comes out. James Matt King wrote: Hello Stathis and James, In answer to the first question, does the multiverse inlude perfect

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread James N Rose
Dear Federico, In a mature and open 'exploring community', especially where people of different language backgrounds are concerned about coming together, the responsibility for extracting meaning and ideas falls as much on the readers as the writers. Syntax and grammer 'perfection' are secondary

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Frank Flynn
get fucked

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread CMR
get fucked Well, based upon the vast vocabulary as evidenced by this incisive argument by the poster, obviously a man of the vast intellect and insight of a George Bush! Impressive indeed! Cheers

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Benjamin Udell
Tegmark's multiverse theory doesn't make it appropriate to initiate -- or multiply -- the gratuitous. get fucked Well, based upon the vast vocabulary as evidenced by this incisive argument by the poster, obviously a man of the vast intellect and insight of a George Bush! Impressive

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Alexander B.
How do I unsubscribe from this list - there appears to be no DIGEST version and you should have an unsubscribe with every email. -- Original Message -- From: James N Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:27:25 -0800 Thanks, Matt, yes it

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread CMR
lighten up benny - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:57 AM Subject: Re: a possible paradox Tegmark's multiverse theory doesn't make it appropriate to initiate -- or multiply -- the gratuitous. get

RE: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Connelly
Everytime this thread is responded to with the F word our IT department gets notified and, in turn, notifies me about a blip on the content filter. Its a pain in my ass, so please drop the word if responding. Thanks.

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Mirai Shounen
Actually I wasn't thinking about physically impossible things happening very rarely (QM) but only about regular physics vs probability of things happening. If you consider quantum mechanics you are right in an infinite universe there could be areas in which physics just happens to work very

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Norman Samish
, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: a possible paradox Actually I wasn't thinking about physically impossible things happening very rarely (QM) but only about regular physics vs probability of things happening. If you consider quantum mechanics you are right in an infinite universe there could be areas

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Julian Suggate
I've not posted to this group previously, but I can't resist this one ;^) Hal Finney wrote: Matt King writes: I should point out that there does remain a vanishingly small possibility that we could be in one of the extremely 'magical' universes where both macroscopic and microscopic laws of

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-30 Thread Stephen Paul King
regards, Stephen - Original Message - From: Mirai Shounen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Federico Marulli [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: Re: a possible paradox Actually I wasn't thinking about physically impossible things happening very

a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Federico Marulli
I am an Italian student of Cosmology and it is the first time I write something in this mailing list. I didn't have the time to read all your messages, so I don't know if my thought about multiverses is a new one or not. Anyway I would like to propose you my reflection about this topic. My

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Hal Finney
Federico Marulli writes: I am an Italian student of Cosmology and it is the first time I write something in this mailing list. I didn't have the time to read all your messages, so I don't know if my thought about multiverses is a new one or not. Anyway I would like to propose you my reflection

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Federico Marulli
Hal Finney writes: What is the paradox here? Are you saying that our deduction that we live in a level 1 multiverse (i.e. one which is infinitely large and full of stars and planets much like our own) is possibly wrong? That may be true but it doesn't strike me as a paradox. All of our

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Matt King
Hello Frederico, I've recently been taking part in a discussion on very similar lines on the Fabric of Reality mailing list (yahoo groups). Federico Marulli wrote: My reasoning is rather simple. Dealing with an infinite level 1 multiuniverse, if an event, even an improbable one, doesn't

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Hal Finney
Matt King writes: I should point out that there does remain a vanishingly small possibility that we could be in one of the extremely 'magical' universes where both macroscopic and microscopic laws of physics are skewed in a mutually consistent way, however given the tiny probability of this

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Matt King
Hi Hal, Hal Finney wrote: Matt King writes: I should point out that there does remain a vanishingly small possibility that we could be in one of the extremely 'magical' universes where both macroscopic and microscopic laws of physics are skewed in a mutually consistent way, however given

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
Let me add a postscript to this quicky: does the multiverse include perfect duplications, or only arbitrarily close to perfect - and does it make a difference? Stathis From: James N Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: a possible paradox Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:52:30

Re: a possible paradox

2003-10-29 Thread Hal Finney
Stathis Papaioannou, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Let me add a postscript to this quicky: does the multiverse include perfect duplications, or only arbitrarily close to perfect - and does it make a difference? It depends on what you mean by the multiverse, and on what the laws of physics are