Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread LizR
I'm not happy with an article that deliberately picks on the use of favourite to make a spurious argument. It's obvious what was meant - would preferred have been better, or considered most likely ? That sort of intellectual dishonesty isn't a good start. Then the phrase in the title - why are

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread Telmo Menezes
Brent, What's your position on the MWI? Best, Telmo. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:36 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Forwarded Message In July 2011, participants at a conference on the placid shore of Lake Traunsee in Austria were polled on what they thought the

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Forwarded Message In July 2011, participants at a conference on the placid shore of Lake Traunsee in Austria were polled on what they thought the meeting was about. You might imagine that this question

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Well contrary to his title... he doesn't ask a question but assert it is a fantasy... and he just uses an argument of disbelief... well ok, but that's not an argument... he also talks about splitting with universes created at every interaction, everywhere, without entertaining the differentiation

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread meekerdb
I think it's taking the mathematics too seriously (but then I'm not a Platonist). When QM is integrated with GR something different may emerge. Brent On 2/19/2015 2:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Brent, What's your position on the MWI? Best, Telmo. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:36 PM, meekerdb

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread meekerdb
On 2/19/2015 5:34 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/19/2015 3:52 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thursday, February 19, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote:

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Thursday, February 19, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think it's taking the mathematics too seriously (but then I'm not a Platonist). When QM is integrated with GR something different may emerge. So which interpretation do you prefer? Presumably one that takes the math less

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 2/19/2015 3:52 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thursday, February 19, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think it's taking the mathematics too seriously (but then I'm not a Platonist). When QM is integrated

Re: Philip Ball, MWI skeptic

2015-02-19 Thread meekerdb
On 2/19/2015 3:52 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thursday, February 19, 2015, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I think it's taking the mathematics too seriously (but then I'm not a Platonist). When QM is integrated with GR something different may emerge. So