Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

2008-04-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:24:12PM -0700, nichomachus wrote: Hi, Russell, Surely the framework of the Many Worlds interpretation would say that the likelyhood of measuring a quantum observable in state A rather than B reflects the number of histories in which the observable is measured as

Re: Quantum Immortality = no second law

2008-04-15 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:22:23AM +0200, Saibal Mitra wrote: First off, how is it that the MWI does not imply quantum immortality? MWI is just quantum mechanics without the wavefunction collapse postulate. This then implies that after a measurement your wavefuntion will be in a