Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Gough
So you are saying the mass of the universe is infinite. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, A. Wolf wrote: > > > Yes, but space may be simply the coordinate system in which matter and > > energy move. Even if the coordinate system is infinite, it doesn't matter > > because the particles' occupy a f

Re: KIM 2.3 (was Re: Time)

2009-01-17 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2009, at 22:50, Brent Meeker wrote: > >> >> Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> On 14 Jan 2009, at 18:40, Brent Meeker wrote: >>> Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/1/14 Brent Meeker > wrote: > >> >> in a compu

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread A. Wolf
> Yes, but space may be simply the coordinate system in which matter and > energy move. Even if the coordinate system is infinite, it doesn't matter > because the particles' occupy a finite (but growing) part of it. I don't think your conceptualization of an expanding universe is correct. No cur

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Gough
Thank you. However, I don't understand your objection to an infinite number of states. > The universe in which we live appears by current measurements to be > infinite > in size (because it is geometrically flat), and will last forever (because > its expansion is hastening). Yes, but space may b

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread A. Wolf
>I understand. I was trying ask about whether or not, if there were say > 10^10^10 slits, would the electron go through all of them. Do we know for > sure? You can perform the experiment with a thin grid instead of slits and get similar patterns. But 10^10^10 in the traditional top-down way is

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Gough
I understand. I was trying ask about whether or not, if there were say 10^10^10 slits, would the electron go through all of them. Do we know for sure? Also, I want the inside of time answer. Right now, in the multiverse, it seems like the number of differentiated states may be a very large number,

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Abram Demski
Fragamus, That depends on definitions! What counts as a history, and "when" do we count them? In order for the number of histories to be "merely a fantastically large and growing number", we need to be inside of time when we count the number of histories-- otherwise it could not be growing. Perso

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Abram Demski
Fragamus, That depends on definitions! What counts as a history, and "when" do we count them? In order for the number of histories to be "merely a fantastically large and growing number", we need to be inside of time when we count the number of histories-- otherwise it could not be growing. Perso

Re: COMP, Quantum Logic and Gleason's Theorem

2009-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jan 2009, at 07:52, Brent Meeker wrote: > > Günther Greindl wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> the question goes primarily to Bruno but all other input is >> welcome :-)) >> >> Bruno, you said you have already arrived at a quantum logic in your >> technical work? >> >> May I refer to the following

Re: COMP, Quantum Logic and Gleason's Theorem

2009-01-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jan 2009, at 22:04, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi all, > > the question goes primarily to Bruno but all other input is > welcome :-)) > > Bruno, you said you have already arrived at a quantum logic in your > technical work? Yes. The hypostases, with p restrict to the Sigma-1 sentence