Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-06 Thread Bob Hearn
On Nov 6, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Russell Standish wrote:On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:57:17AM -0500, Bob Hearn wrote:However, one can easily imagine a perceptual 2D world existing for  conscious entities. Even if there is no self-consistent 2D physics  leading to atoms, planets, etc., one can

Re: Let There Be Something

2005-11-05 Thread Bob Hearn
On Nov 5, 2005, at 2:22 AM, Russell Standish wrote:Game of Life is an example 2D system capable of universalcomputation. I'm not sure this implies consciousness is possible in2D, but it needs to be considered.It does imply that if the Game of Life is the laws of physics of your universe, then

Re: What is the 'Unruh Effect'?

2005-10-08 Thread Bob Hearn
is maximally entangled in an inertial frame becomes less entangled if the observers are relatively accelerated. This phenomenon, which is a consequence of the Unruh effect, shows that entanglement is an observer-dependent quantity in non-inertial frames. Bob Hearn