Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, conservation

2003-11-09 Thread Ron McFarland
On 8 Nov 2003 at 20:35, Brent Meeker wrote: … A balloon model neglects inhomogeneties that allow gravity to dominate locally. … at short range the weak, electromagnetic, and strong force dominate. … Of course almost anything is possible at the Planck scale. What you are proposing are

Re: Fw: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-09 Thread Hal Finney
Eric Cavalcanti, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Suppose I sit on this copy machine in New York, and the information of the position and velocities (within quantum uncertainty) of all particles in my body is copied. Suppose, for the sake of the argument, that the mere retrieval of this information

Re: Dark Matter, dark eneggy, conservation

2003-11-09 Thread Ron McFarland
On 9 Nov 2003 at 11:20, Brent Meeker wrote: The theory of supersymmetry implied that all particles could decay to photons. As the universe expands photons lose energy through redshift. So the universe would decay asymptotically to zero energy density. That's not exactly the same a decaying to

RE: Quantum accident survivor

2003-11-09 Thread David Barrett-Lennard
Yes this helps, but I still find it strange to talk about offspring universes (that by definition are independent) and yet to predict outcomes we sum their complex valued wave functions. While we're on the subject of interpretation of QM, do you know about the transactional interpretation of QM?