Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread Kim Jones



 On 31 Oct 2014, at 4:47 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
  
  Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking.
 
 So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you don't agree 
 with what you wrote above.
 
   John K Clark 
 
  

Then your conclusion strikes me as facile in that you seek to find a logical 
contradiction as a way of invalidating my assertion. This is another item from 
your grab-bag of rhetorical tricks. There is no logical contradiction in my 
assertion. I neither agree with it nor disagree with it. I present it as an 
observation. You clearly saw a (negative) value in what I wrote because you 
have responded to what I wrote. If you saw no value in it then you would simply 
pass over it and ignore it. You are once again self-referentially incorrect (ie 
lying to yourself - something I never thought was actually possible but you 
demonstrate that it is possible to lie to yourself in this forum on virtually a 
daily basis.)

In real thinking you can be wrong and as bloody-minded as often as you want 
as long as you are right in the end ie when the thinking process reaches its 
conclusion. Being right in the end means having an outcome that offers a 
value that everyone sees. That is not the same thing as winning an argument. 
Being wrong is creative. Many discussions here become bogged down in argument 
which is anything but creative. 

 I don't do argument. Argument is based on the clash of opinion and values. 
Argument is rarely about what is ostensibly being argued because it is mainly 
powered by the values of those participating in the argument none of whom ever 
admit that this is really what is happening. That's not science. Science is 
about putting your personal prejudices, beliefs and convictions to one side as 
the topic is examined from a variety of viewpoints. You do argument all the 
time because it is the only way you have ever learnt to do thinking amongst a 
group of people. You see a dialectic process as a kind of battle where the 
winner is the one who is the most stubborn and self-convinced. 

Look, John - you have a lot to offer, I will certainly give you that. But as 
many have pointed out by now in so many different ways, you are more interested 
in winning armchair arguments and launching ad hominems than doing real 
science. Didn't your mommy love you enough when you were young, Sunshine? 
That's the only explanation that sticks for this chest-beating profile you have 
built for yourself. It's very disappointing because if only you would cease the 
ego-struck nonsense I believe you would get on with people here a whole lot 
better. 

Kim

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Not everyone wants to be happy

2014-10-31 Thread LizR
According to Scientific American, not everyone aspires to what might be
called a self-centred type of happiness. Eastern cultures prefer social
harmony - getting on with others rather than bettering them. Of course
happiness through competition is almost a national religion in New
Zealand, one feature of our culture that I particularly dislike.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-everyone-wants-to-be-happy

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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:

 Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking.



 So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you don't
 agree with what you wrote above.



 you seek to find a logical contradiction as a way of invalidating my
 assertion


I didn't just seek it I found it, and I can't imagine a better way of
invalidating a assertion than finding a logical contradiction in it.

 There is no logical contradiction in my assertion. I neither agree with
 it nor disagree with it.


If you don't agree with what you write how do you find the energy to push
the keys on your keyboard? And if your writing is so inofensive, bland and
information poor as to elicit no reaction of any sort from anyone why
should they bother to read such pablum?

 I present it as an observation.


A observation that you don't agree is valid.

 You clearly saw a (negative) value in what I wrote because you have
 responded to what I wrote.


True, but I'm not the one who wrote agreement and disagreement are not
aspects of real thinking and In fact I disagree with your statement.

 Being wrong is creative.


Okey dokey


  I don't do argument.


Then why wasn't that the only sentence in your post?

 you are more interested in winning armchair arguments and launching ad
 hominems than doing real science. Didn't your mommy love you enough when
 you were young, Sunshine? That's the only explanation that sticks for this
 chest-beating profile you have built for yourself.


And unlike me at least you don't stoop to launching ad hominems.

  John K Clark

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Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 30 Oct 2014, at 21:22, meekerdb wrote:


On 10/30/2014 10:24 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:


On 30 Oct 2014, at 00:12, LizR wrote:


you can delete your posts (I think?)


That is not so easy when a post has been already sent, I think,  
unless quantum delayed erasing perhaps (grin), but as zibbsay  
observes, I was not so much quibbling when saying that modern set  
theories does provide a span of infinities. With ZF, above ZF +  
kappa exists (kappa a large cardinal), the model of ZF becomes  
citizen of a set theory extension. You get the same of course with  
PA + PA is consistent, somehow, and the arithmetical is known  
*inexhaustible*, like Turing studied for its PhD with Church, and  
is well described in Torkel Fraenkel book The inexhaustible.


Torkel Franzen.


Oops. Sorry. It is Torkel Franzen, of course. His two books are very  
good, except that his book on use and abuse of incompleteness, is  
concentrated on the misuses. He does not cite Judson Webb, nor of  
course my work. It does allude that, contrary of many miuse of Gödel  
$against* mechanism, the formal theories and machines involved seem to  
have pretyy deep introspection power, though.


It is of course not the Fraenkel of ZF (= Zermelo-Fraenkel). Thanks,

Bruno




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Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 29 Oct 2014, at 21:14, Richard Ruquist wrote:

Yes to both questions. String theory treats spacetime as a continuum  
and the loop quantum gravity LQG theories in which spacetime is  
granular predict that photons at differing frequencies propagate at  
differing velocities, which has apparently been falsified by Fermi  
Telescope data that indicates that gamma rays about an order of  
magnitude of differing frequency or energy arrive at the telescope  
at the same time within measurement accuracy. I can get the  
reference for you if interested. Thanks for thinking of me.


You are welcome.



In my career I have encountered many researchers who seem to  
remember everything of importance. Not me and that has really been a  
handicap. Now at 77 even my short-term memory is failing me. I seem  
to be heading for dementia but a quick trip to the afterlife would  
be preferable.


I wish you good health, but (as I know myself) that is something we  
control very partially. You might search on cannabis, as I know only  
one health problem for which cannabis is not helping (and I got it!).


Bruno




Richard

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:


On 27 Oct 2014, at 23:18, LizR wrote:


On 28 October 2014 10:56, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote:
But the span of infinity is outside spacetime.
I would say it's an abstract property of certain mathematical  
systems (or something similar). If GR is right and spacetime is a  
continuum, then it will contain infinities even in a finite region,  
which would mean that it's a mathematical abstraction that happens  
to be realised in the physical universe. But I don't think anyone  
knows if that is true at present, and I believe most theories of  
quantum gravity attempt to make spacetime into something other than  
a continuum.


It looks like the natural idea. To quantize gravitation, we need to  
quantize space-time. But is not string theory still using the  
continuum in the background? Richard? Does not some experiment  
refute some granularity prediction of the loop-theory (which tries  
to make space time a non continuum)?


Bruno






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Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 29 Oct 2014, at 21:53, LizR wrote:


On 30 October 2014 09:14, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes to both questions. String theory treats spacetime as a continuum  
and the loop quantum gravity LQG theories in which spacetime is  
granular predict that photons at differing frequencies propagate at  
differing velocities, which has apparently been falsified by Fermi  
Telescope data that indicates that gamma rays about an order of  
magnitude of differing frequency or energy arrive at the telescope  
at the same time within measurement accuracy. I can get the  
reference for you if interested. Thanks for thinking of me.
In my career I have encountered many researchers who seem to  
remember everything of importance. Not me and that has really been a  
handicap. Now at 77 even my short-term memory is failing me. I seem  
to be heading for dementia but a quick trip to the afterlife would  
be preferable.


Apparently eating lots of chocolate can help stave off dementia and  
even senior moments. That and a bottle of red wine a day.


I am not entirely sure of that, but I know that a bad medication can  
be more helpful than a good one, when you like the bad one and believe  
in it.


Bruno




(And hell, even if they can't)

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Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 30 Oct 2014, at 19:52, Richard Ruquist wrote:

I envision wave functions as empty shells that can be filled with  
energy.


Why not particles?  But then you are heading toward Bohm-de Broglie  
type of non local hidden variable, which seems to me adding more  
mystery than solving one.





Because of quantum theory the interaction energy
may or may not exceed particle-creation level.
If the creation level is exceeded by not very much
all of the interaction energy must go intl one quantum state
else no particle is created.

For many published reasons the state probabilities for creation are  
the Born probabilities.


Yet in any interaction if the particle-creation energy is exceeded,
all of the energy that goes into creating the particle goes into one  
state.

That must be quantum collapse logic QCL.


I am not convinced, but don't mind to much. I think we have some  
agreement on what we disagree on. Of course, in the computationalist  
theory, strictly speaking this belongs to open problems. Just that  
Everett gives the closest physics to the one we have to derive from  
computationalism, if I am correct.


Bruno







Richard

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be  
wrote:


On 30 Oct 2014, at 13:08, Richard Ruquist wrote:

What- a delayed post eraser suggesting self-interference is  
extant(;)



Glad you see the problem. I knew I couldn't be the only one :)

Well, if QM is really 100% correct, we can't delete anything anyway.  
We can just hide things for some period, but that asks for relative  
works and energy.


In math forgetting is abstraction.

Bruno




On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:12 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote:
you can delete your posts (I think?)

On 30 October 2014 12:07, zibb...@gmail.com wrote:


On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 11:03:01 PM UTC, zib...@gmail.com  
wrote:



On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:17:12 PM UTC, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 28 Oct 2014, at 22:48, LizR wrote:


Well that WAS the point of my original post...

: D

On 29 October 2014 00:55, Peter Sas peterj...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe 'spam of infinity' is a better term ;)



'Spam of infinity', or 'Span of Infinities!' You remember surely,  
Liz, that Cantor proved (in some theory) that there are many  
infinities, even many sort of infinities. With the plural, span  
might make sense.


Sorry for quibbling on your infinite joke, but I just answered a  
post by John Clark, and it seems I need to quibble a little bit  
myself :)


Bruce


I would say you're more a obfscator than a quibbler .

 sorry wasn't meant to send the post right then...the above comment  
actually represent what is usually the beginning of humour around  
these words. And I was actually going use that as a way to explain  
why you're not quibbling today.


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Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-31 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 31 Oct 2014, at 01:34, LizR wrote:

I believe David Deutsch says there are lots of photons but only one  
Photon.



What would that mean precisely?

It would entail that there are a lot of david deutsch, but only one  
David Deutsch, but I am not sure the david deutsch can be OK with  
this, especially after differentiation.



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Re: Not everyone wants to be happy

2014-10-31 Thread meekerdb

On 10/31/2014 2:55 AM, LizR wrote:
According to Scientific American, not everyone aspires to what might be called a 
self-centred type of happiness. Eastern cultures prefer social harmony - getting on with 
others rather than bettering them. Of course happiness through competition is almost a 
national religion in New Zealand, one feature of our culture that I particularly dislike.


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-everyone-wants-to-be-happy


Seems rather muddled.  I think they're saying personal pleasure makes Westerners happy, 
while social approval makes Asian's happy. But then they start to use happiness as a 
synonym for pleasure, and conclude happiness is not the goal.


I think of happiness and pleasure as rather transient and the goal (if there is one) is 
better captured by satisfaction - which can come from success in competition and also 
social acceptance.  Over the years I competed in motorcycle racing it was a pleasure to 
win, but I was also accepted by my fellow racers.


Brent

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Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-31 Thread meekerdb

On 10/31/2014 7:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:


On 30 Oct 2014, at 19:52, Richard Ruquist wrote:


I envision wave functions as empty shells that can be filled with energy.


Why not particles?  But then you are heading toward Bohm-de Broglie type of non local 
hidden variable, which seems to me adding more mystery than solving one.





Because of quantum theory the interaction energy
may or may not exceed particle-creation level.
If the creation level is exceeded by not very much
all of the interaction energy must go intl one quantum state
else no particle is created.

For many published reasons the state probabilities for creation are the Born 
probabilities.

Yet in any interaction if the particle-creation energy is exceeded,
all of the energy that goes into creating the particle goes into one state.
That must be quantum collapse logic QCL.


I am not convinced, but don't mind to much. I think we have some agreement on what we 
disagree on. Of course, in the computationalist theory, strictly speaking this belongs 
to open problems. Just that Everett gives the closest physics to the one we have to 
derive from computationalism, if I am correct.


Bruno


I don't think Everett explicitly considered quantum field theory, but it's not 
conceptually different.  A particle can be created or not, it's a probabilistic event.  So 
in MWI there are worlds where the particle is created and worlds where it isn't.  There 
are no worlds where a half-particle is created.  This is just another example in which 
everything *nomologically* possible happens; which is not the same as everything 
imaginable (logically consistent) happens.  Quantum mechanics puts lots of constraints on 
what can happen.


Brent

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Re: The Span of Infinity

2014-10-31 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:37 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:

 On 10/31/2014 7:50 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:


 On 30 Oct 2014, at 19:52, Richard Ruquist wrote:

  I envision wave functions as empty shells that can be filled with energy.


 Why not particles?  But then you are heading toward Bohm-de Broglie type
 of non local hidden variable, which seems to me adding more mystery than
 solving one.


I base my thinking on double-slit experiments where a single photon is
transmitted at any one time and the detectors are set to record photons
having the original energy/frequency. The experimental results indicate
that only one photon is detected per one incident photon. With enough
single-photon detections the interference pattern can be discerned at the
detector plane. Yet EM theory suggests that the photon energy is spread
across the entire interference pattern.

So never mind what might be happening in other worlds, what makes all of
the photon energy suddenly appear at just one detector.

I certainly reject the idea that human consciousness makes all waves
collapse into one. But I have a different idea that may or may not make
sense.

My conjecture is that the EM fields (or in general the wave functions in
any particle-particle interaction) are entangled as though they are BECs.
Experiments demonstrate that entangled BECs transmit information instantly
between isolated but entangled BECs. If so, even if the photon energy is
spread out across the entire pattern, the information of where the photon
energy should go is available to the entire EM field.

That does not allow you to predict where any particular photon detection
will occur. But the instantaneous transfer of information may allow for a
single photon detection for each transmitted photon. The alternative in
single-photon experiments would be no detections at all since the EM field
on any particular detector is insufficient to create a detection.

If anyone buys this, I can also speculate on how wave functions could be
BECs or act like them.
Richard







  Because of quantum theory the interaction energy
 may or may not exceed particle-creation level.
 If the creation level is exceeded by not very much
 all of the interaction energy must go intl one quantum state
 else no particle is created.

 For many published reasons the state probabilities for creation are the
 Born probabilities.

 Yet in any interaction if the particle-creation energy is exceeded,
 all of the energy that goes into creating the particle goes into one
 state.
 That must be quantum collapse logic QCL.


 I am not convinced, but don't mind to much. I think we have some
 agreement on what we disagree on. Of course, in the computationalist
 theory, strictly speaking this belongs to open problems. Just that Everett
 gives the closest physics to the one we have to derive from
 computationalism, if I am correct.

 Bruno


 I don't think Everett explicitly considered quantum field theory, but it's
 not conceptually different.  A particle can be created or not, it's a
 probabilistic event.  So in MWI there are worlds where the particle is
 created and worlds where it isn't.  There are no worlds where a
 half-particle is created.  This is just another example in which everything
 *nomologically* possible happens; which is not the same as everything
 imaginable (logically consistent) happens.  Quantum mechanics puts lots of
 constraints on what can happen.

 Brent

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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread PGC


On Friday, October 31, 2014 10:06:39 AM UTC+1, Kim Jones wrote:




 On 31 Oct 2014, at 4:47 pm, John Clark johnk...@gmail.com javascript: 
 wrote:

 On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Kim Jones kimj...@ozemail.com.au 
 javascript: wrote:
  

  Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking.


 So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you don't 
 agree with what you wrote above.

   John K Clark 

  


 Then your conclusion strikes me as facile in that you seek to find a 
 logical contradiction as a way of invalidating my assertion. This is 
 another item from your grab-bag of rhetorical tricks. There is no logical 
 contradiction in my assertion. I neither agree with it nor disagree with 
 it. I present it as an observation. You clearly saw a (negative) value in 
 what I wrote because you have responded to what I wrote. If you saw no 
 value in it then you would simply pass over it and ignore it. You are once 
 again self-referentially incorrect (ie lying to yourself - something I 
 never thought was actually possible but you demonstrate that it is possible 
 to lie to yourself in this forum on virtually a daily basis.)

 In real thinking you can be wrong and as bloody-minded as often as you 
 want as long as you are right in the end ie when the thinking process 
 reaches its conclusion. Being right in the end means having an outcome 
 that offers a value that everyone sees. That is not the same thing as 
 winning an argument. Being wrong is creative. Many discussions here become 
 bogged down in argument which is anything but creative. 

  I don't do argument. Argument is based on the clash of opinion and 
 values. Argument is rarely about what is ostensibly being argued because it 
 is mainly powered by the values of those participating in the argument none 
 of whom ever admit that this is really what is happening. That's not 
 science. Science is about putting your personal prejudices, beliefs and 
 convictions to one side as the topic is examined from a variety of 
 viewpoints. You do argument all the time because it is the only way you 
 have ever learnt to do thinking amongst a group of people. 


This is why I don't care to engage John anymore for time being. In the 
frame/level he forces you to engage in, I gladly loose, because we're not 
seeing eye to eye anyway, as competitive ego-bashing is nothing I care for: 
I want to gain perspectives from discussion, not defend old familiar stuff 
religiously. Conflict and difference in position, yes. But riding that out 
and obsessing over the same stuff, no. I'll pass.

He is radical in his atheism to the extent that he obsesses and talks more 
about god than most Christians I know. Similar for his game with comp.

It's also clear he believes in reputation/status along with assuming an 
obviousness and accessibility of truth to him. 

Therefore he doesn't believe in defamation, because if your true 
reputation (plus the prizes you have won which should belisted in 
Wikipedia/Google of course) and the obvious/decidable truth content of your 
posts hold, you may, as somebody on top of religiously fanatical hierarchy, 
shame others into correctness; which doesn't mean agree to disagree 
while we go our ways, but instead constant barrage (which is simply spam 
or bot behavior to many outside his theological outlook) and iteration of 
the attacks, insults, mocking, and irrational repetition of linguistic 
tricks and slights of hand, which he knew how to do since before he was 
twelve.

So believing in impossibility of defamation, you can nitpick and insult 
repetitively forever. You're on a religious mission to disseminate truth. 
By now, it's so predictable how he will respond to the next answer of Bruno 
regarding step 3 (fumbling the pronouns cheap shot, or trivial beyond 
belief). He knows these lines of argument and understands them. Therefore 
it is difficult to extend good faith in difference of positions. Like 
religious radical he will continue to post this way with complete disregard 
of whether what he is writing is true or not. He must scream/insult louder 
and win. Even if this takes forever. 

I'm bored of this business. PGC 

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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014  PGC multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote:


  I don't care to engage John anymore


No NO, anything but that!

 I'm bored of this business.


Then goodby, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

  John K Clark

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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread Kim Jones




On 1 Nov 2014, at 1:22 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:

  Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking.
  
  So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you don't 
  agree with what you wrote above.
  
  you seek to find a logical contradiction as a way of invalidating my 
  assertion
  you seek to find a logical contradiction as a way of invalidating my 
  assertion
 
 I didn't just seek it I found it


You seek to find the contradiction because that is what you set out to do. That 
is your taste, your armchair sport. You always find what you seek because one 
always does, given that attitude. In other words, you approach every statement, 
every assertion with a view to exposing error. That's the mindset of a 
religious cleric tasked with outing heretics who do not respect the faith. 
Someone else might see more positive value in wondering in what sense it might 
be worthwhile considering that agreement and disagreement are not a part of 
thinking - given that it sounds pretty radical as an assertion, yes. Most 
people I imagine, would wonder a little about this statement, but you, in 
typical chest-beating fashion, immediately set out to kill anything that 
doesn't fit into your world view. Have you ever wondered about anything, John, 
or do you, like the religious clerics of the middle ages, know everything there 
is to know?


 and I can't imagine a better way of invalidating a assertion than finding a 
 logical contradiction in it.


Tee hee hee. That then, allows you to set up the pyre in the town square and 
light the fagot to burn the heretic alive. 

Any assertion whatsoever has value. The assertion aeroplanes should land 
upside down has extraordinary value despite it's apparent absurdity. The value 
is not in the assertion itself but in what it provokes or leads to in the mind 
of those hearing it. This is something you have to learn. The value of anything 
is something that exists in your head, not in the thing itself.

It is up to the thinker to find the value. This is a function of your mind that 
you haven't yet found.

Kim

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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List

I ass-hume that was platonic, unless I changed my world beliefs, the dude, said 
he would block me, I demurred and so he did, and so I did back.  It's been a 
bit nicer for me. Absolutists are a bore and sometimes dangerous to freedom. 
 
Then goodby, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. 



  John K Clark

 
 
 
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Subject: Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014  PGC multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote:

 

 I don't care to engage John anymore



No NO, anything but that!  


 I'm bored of this business.



Then goodby, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. 


  John K Clark




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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread LizR
On 31 October 2014 23:55, PGC multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote:


 This is why I don't care to engage John anymore for time being. In the
 frame/level he forces you to engage in, I gladly loose, because we're not
 seeing eye to eye anyway, as competitive ego-bashing is nothing I care for:
 I want to gain perspectives from discussion, not defend old familiar stuff
 religiously. Conflict and difference in position, yes. But riding that out
 and obsessing over the same stuff, no. I'll pass.

 Nicely summarised. Not just true of John (probably true to an extent of
everyone here, though at least some of us try to overcome it when we find
ourselves doing it) - but he appears to be the current *bete noire*.

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Re: MGA revisited paper + supervenience

2014-10-31 Thread LizR
On 1 November 2014 04:00, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote:


 On 31 Oct 2014, at 01:34, LizR wrote:

 I believe David Deutsch says there are lots of photons but only one Photon.

 What would that mean precisely?

 It would entail that there are a lot of david deutsch, but only one David
 Deutsch, but I am not sure the david deutsch can be OK with this,
 especially after differentiation.

 I think it means DD (or dd) has reified the wave function. Hence a photon
we detect is part of a larger object described by the wave function (with
no probabilities involved). He calls the larger, more multiversal version
a Photon. IIRC.

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Re: Do all forces derive from repulsionattraction?

2014-10-31 Thread meekerdb
Actually I think discussion of John Clark and his faults is off topic.  How about taking 
it off line.


Brent

On 10/31/2014 12:56 PM, Kim Jones wrote:





On 1 Nov 2014, at 1:22 am, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com 
mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:



 Agreement and disagreement are not aspects of real thinking.

 So if I assume you do real thinking then I must conclude that you 
don't
agree with what you wrote above.

 you seek to find a logical contradiction as a way of invalidating my 
assertion


I didn't just seek it I found it



You seek to find the contradiction because that is what you set out to do. That is your 
taste, your armchair sport. You always find what you seek because one always does, 
given that attitude. In other words, you approach every statement, every assertion with 
a view to exposing error. That's the mindset of a religious cleric tasked with outing 
heretics who do not respect the faith. Someone else might see more positive value in 
wondering in what sense it might be worthwhile considering that agreement and 
disagreement are not a part of thinking - given that it sounds pretty radical as an 
assertion, yes. Most people I imagine, would wonder a little about this statement, but 
you, in typical chest-beating fashion, immediately set out to kill anything that doesn't 
fit into your world view. Have you ever wondered about anything, John, or do you, like 
the religious clerics of the middle ages, know everything there is to know?



and I can't imagine a better way of invalidating a assertion than finding a logical 
contradiction in it.



Tee hee hee. That then, allows you to set up the pyre in the town square and light the 
fagot to burn the heretic alive.


Any assertion whatsoever has value. The assertion aeroplanes should land upside down 
has extraordinary value despite it's apparent absurdity. The value is not in the 
assertion itself but in what it provokes or leads to in the mind of those hearing it. 
This is something you have to learn. The value of anything is something that exists in 
your head, not in the thing itself.


It is up to the thinker to find the value. This is a function of your mind that you 
haven't yet found.


Kim

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RE: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-10-31 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
Sounds a lot like MWI, but asserts that the parallel universe's subtle 
interactions explain the weirdness of quantum mecahnics


Read more at: 
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-interacting-worlds-theory-scientists-interaction.html#jCp

Griffith University academics are challenging the foundations of quantum 
science with a radical new theory based on the existence of, and interactions 
between, parallel universes.

In a paper published in the prestigious journal Physical Review X, Professor 
Howard Wiseman and Dr Michael Hall from Griffith's Centre for Quantum Dynamics, 
and Dr Dirk-Andre Deckert from the University of California, take interacting 
parallel worlds out of the realm of science fiction and into that of hard 
science.The team proposes that parallel universes really exist, and that they 
interact. That is, rather than evolving independently, nearby worlds influence 
one another by a subtle force of repulsion. They show that such an interaction 
could explain everything that is bizarre about quantum mechanicsQuantum theory 
is needed to explain how the universe works at the microscopic scale, and is 
believed to apply to all matter. But it is notoriously difficult to fathom, 
exhibiting weird phenomena which seem to violate the laws of cause and 
effect.As the eminent American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once 
noted: I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum 
mechanics.However, the Many-Interacting Worlds approach developed at 
Griffith University provides a new and daring perspective on this baffling 
field.The idea of parallel universes in quantum mechanics has been around 
since 1957, says Professor Wiseman.In the well-known Many-Worlds 
Interpretation, each universe branches into a bunch of new universes every 
time a quantum measurement is made. All possibilities are therefore realised – 
in some universes the dinosaur-killing asteroid missed Earth. In others, 
Australia was colonised by the Portuguese.But critics question the reality of 
these other universes, since they do not influence our universe at all. On this 
score, our Many Interacting Worlds approach is completely different, as its 
name implies.Professor Wiseman and his colleagues propose that:   
   - The universe we experience is just one of a gigantic number of worlds. 
Some are almost identical to ours while most are very different;
   - All of these worlds are equally real, exist continuously through time, and 
possess precisely defined properties;
   - All quantum phenomena arise from a universal force of repulsion between 
'nearby' (i.e. similar) worlds which tends to make them more dissimilar.
Dr Hall says the Many-Interacting Worlds theory may even create the 
extraordinary possibility of testing for the existence of other worlds.The 
beauty of our approach is that if there is just one world our theory reduces to 
Newtonian mechanics, while if there is a gigantic number of worlds it 
reproduces quantum mechanics, he says.In between it predicts something new 
that is neither Newton's theory nor quantum theory.We also believe that, in 
providing a new mental picture of quantum effects, it will be useful in 
planning experiments to test and exploit quantum phenomena.The ability to 
approximate quantum evolution using a finite number of worlds could have 
significant ramifications in molecular dynamics, which is important for 
understanding chemical reactions and the action of drugs.Professor Bill 
Poirier, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas Tech University, has 
observed: These are great ideas, not only conceptually, but also with regard 
to the new numerical breakthroughs they are almost certain to engender.

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Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-10-31 Thread John Mikes
Chris, let me reflect to '2' words. (I never studied QM, have some glimpse
as a polymer chemist, so I do NOT argue against the theory)

1. *Parallel *

In what sense are 'universes' compared to be deemed parallel?
I presume in my agnostic views that there may be many more visions in which
2 systems may be deemed parallel (or: antiparallel?)
They may diverge in time, spacial extension, forcefields, lifespan, etc.
etc.
In my narrative (I never called it a 'theory') the perfectly symmetrical
and equilibrated Plenitude (imaginary vision of Everything in balance)
there are inevitably items getting grouped together in a way that violates
the perfect symmetrical distribution (complexities?) and I called those
'universes'. They re-dissipate into the perfect symmetry right as they
formed (in our case: viewed from the INSIDE as a long long time in our
Space-Time views).
Such 'universes' have different compositions according to the items forming
them, at least I did not project/propose any rules to their composition.
We know nothing about the Plenitude (word taken from Plato).

2.a quote from the URL:* 'microscopic'*

*(Quantum theory is needed to explain how the universe works at the
microscopic scale, and is believed to apply to all matter.) *

'Microscopic to what? to our human sizes? to the sub-Planck, or the
galaxy-size extensions?
Again my agnostic views: who knows what worlds do exist in quite
different orders of magnitude from our habituel rulers?

Just tasting words

John Mikes




Read more at:
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-interacting-worlds-theory-scientists-interaction.html#jCp

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:04 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List 
everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote:

 Sounds a lot like MWI, but asserts that the parallel universe's subtle
 interactions explain the weirdness of quantum mecahnics



 Read more at:
 http://phys.org/news/2014-10-interacting-worlds-theory-scientists-interaction.html#jCp

 Griffith University academics are challenging the foundations of quantum
 science with a radical new theory based on the existence of, and
 interactions between, parallel universes.

 In a paper published in the prestigious journal *Physical Review X*,
 Professor Howard Wiseman and Dr Michael Hall from Griffith's Centre for
 Quantum Dynamics, and Dr Dirk-Andre Deckert from the University of
 California, take interacting parallel worlds out of the realm of science
 fiction and into that of hard science.
 The team proposes that parallel universes really exist, and that they
 interact. That is, rather than evolving independently, nearby worlds
 influence one another by a subtle force of repulsion. They show that such
 an interaction could explain everything that is bizarre about quantum
 mechanics http://phys.org/tags/quantum+mechanics/
 Quantum theory is needed to explain how the universe works at the
 microscopic scale, and is believed to apply to all matter. But it is
 notoriously difficult to fathom, exhibiting weird phenomena which seem to
 violate the laws of cause and effect.
 As the eminent American theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once noted:
 I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
 However, the Many-Interacting Worlds approach developed at Griffith
 University provides a new and daring perspective on this baffling field.
 The idea of parallel universes http://phys.org/tags/parallel+universes/ in
 quantum mechanics has been around since 1957, says Professor Wiseman.
 In the well-known Many-Worlds Interpretation, each universe branches
 into a bunch of new universes every time a quantum measurement is made. All
 possibilities are therefore realised – in some universes the
 dinosaur-killing asteroid missed Earth. In others, Australia was colonised
 by the Portuguese.
 But critics question the reality of these other universes, since they do
 not influence our universe at all. On this score, our Many Interacting
 Worlds approach is completely different, as its name implies.
 Professor Wiseman and his colleagues propose that:

- The universe we experience is just one of a gigantic number of
worlds. Some are almost identical to ours while most are very different;
- All of these worlds are equally real, exist continuously through
time, and possess precisely defined properties;
- All quantum phenomena arise from a universal force of repulsion
between 'nearby' (i.e. similar) worlds which tends to make them more
dissimilar.

 Dr Hall says the Many-Interacting Worlds theory may even create the
 extraordinary possibility of testing for the existence of other worlds.
 The beauty of our approach is that if there is just one world our theory
 reduces to Newtonian mechanics, while if there is a gigantic number of
 worlds it reproduces quantum mechanics, he says.
 In between it predicts something new that is neither Newton's theory nor 
 quantum
 theory http://phys.org/tags/quantum+theory/.
 We also believe that, in providing a new 

Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-10-31 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List


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Perhaps this is too much being raised on the twilight zone, but I wonder if 
this provides any means to interact or make  contact with these 
world/universes? This is of course too much to hope for but the study kind of 
seems to direct the mind towards that possibility. 


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Re: Do parallel universes really exist, and interact

2014-10-31 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List


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 I do know that philosopher, Eric Steinhardt, has worked on the concept of 
parallel universes, and the notion of some kind of immortality, but I think at 
last post, Steinhardt believes that each universe is it's own world line and 
thus no information flows betwixt and between each parallel world. This is a 
bit different than the science paper just presented.


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Chris, let me reflect to '2' words. (I never studied QM, have some glimpse as a 
polymer chemist, so I do NOT argue against the theory)
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bParallel /b
   
   

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In what sense are 'universes' compared to be deemed parallel?
   
   

I presume in my agnostic views that there may be many more visions in which 2 
systems may be deemed parallel (or: antiparallel?) 
   
   

They may diverge in time, spacial extension, forcefields, lifespan, etc. etc.
   
   

In my narrative (I never called it a 'theory') the perfectly symmetrical and 
equilibrated Plenitude (imaginary vision of Everything in balance) there are 
inevitably items getting grouped together in a way that violates the perfect 
symmetrical distribution (complexities?) and I called those 'universes'. They 
re-dissipate into the perfect symmetry right as they formed (in our case: 
viewed from the INSIDE as a long long time in our Space-Time views). 
   
   

Such 'universes' have different compositions according to the items forming 
them, at least I did not project/propose any rules to their composition. 
   
   

We know nothing about the Plenitude (word taken from Plato). 
   
   



   
   

2.a quote from the URL:
b 'microscopic'/b
   
   



   
   

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 my agnostic views: who knows what worlds do exist in quite different orders 
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:04 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List 
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