Re: Plaga

2005-05-27 Thread Patrick Leahy
As an exercise I've been trying to pinpoint exactly what is wrong with Plaga's paper. For anyone who doubts that it *is* wrong, note that it proposed 10 years ago an experiment which he said was feasible with what was then state-of-the-art equipment. This technology has now massively

Re: Plaga

2005-05-27 Thread Hal Finney
Paddy Leahy writes: As an exercise I've been trying to pinpoint exactly what is wrong with Plaga's paper On careful reading, the paper is just littered with confusions and errors Hence, if we saw what he predicted, we would actually *disprove* MWI QM, not confirm it as he thinks.

RE: Plaga

2005-05-26 Thread aet.radal ssg
You're welcome, Lee. - Original Message - From: Lee Corbin To: everything-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: Plaga Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:04:19 -0700 I could not find who suggested Plaga's paper recently, but thanks to whoever it was. Whether Plaga is right or wrong, his

Re: Plaga

2005-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
Message - BRFrom: Bruno Marchal [EMAIL PROTECTED]BRTo: aet.radal ssg [EMAIL PROTECTED]BRSubject: Re: Plaga BRDate: Wed, 25 May 2005 20:40:21 +0200 BRBRgt; BRgt; BRgt; Le 25-mai-05, à 17:59, aet.radal ssg a écrit : BRgt; BRgt; gt; From the initial page from the included link

Re: Plaga

2005-05-26 Thread aet.radal ssg
Ha, ha. - Original Message - From: Saibal Mitra To: everything-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Plaga Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:50:01 +0200 Bruno was quoting another Aet from a parallel world :) Quoting Eugen Leitl : If you expect to be quoted correctly, stop posting

Re: Plaga

2005-05-26 Thread rmiller
At 06:58 PM 5/24/2005, rmiller wrote: In a recent post (5/24) I wrote. . . I would suggest re Plaga or anyone else discussed here, it's not the time spent in a particular academic trench that makes the idea great, it's the quality of the insight. As luck, coincidence or a wide specious

Re: Plaga

2005-05-25 Thread Saibal Mitra
: http://www.hillscapital.com/antispam/ - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: aet.radal ssg Aan: everything-list@eskimo.com Verzonden: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 05:59 PM Onderwerp: Re: Plaga From the initial page from the included link to the archive: "I'm no phys

Re: Plaga

2005-05-25 Thread Jesse Mazer
aet.radal ssg wrote: From the initial page from the included link to the archive: I'm no physicist so I don't know for sure that these implications would follow, but I am very doubtful that interworld communication is consistent with the basics of quantum mechanics.  The fact that this paper

Re: Plaga

2005-05-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 25-mai-05, à 17:59, aet.radal ssg a écrit : From the initial page from the included link to the archive: I'm no physicist so I don't know for sure that these implications would follow, but I am very doubtful that interworld communication is consistent with the basics of quantum mechanics. 

RE: Plaga

2005-05-25 Thread Lee Corbin
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:51 PM To: everything-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Plaga We discussed Plaga's paper back in June, 2002. I reported some skeptical analysis of the paper by John Baez of sci.physics fame, at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3686.html . I also gave some

Re: Plaga

2005-05-24 Thread rmiller
) on it. As for astute knowledge in the QM Codex being a requirement, I seem to recall that, before Ed Whitten took an interest in physics, his undergrad degree was in History. Einstein was a---well, we all know what Einstein was during his miracle year.* I would suggest re Plaga or anyone else

Re: Plaga

2005-05-24 Thread Hal Finney
We discussed Plaga's paper back in June, 2002. I reported some skeptical analysis of the paper by John Baez of sci.physics fame, at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3686.html . I also gave some reasons of my own why arbitrary inter-universe quantum communication should be impossible. Hal

Re: Plaga

2005-05-24 Thread rmiller
At 07:51 PM 5/24/2005, Hal Finney wrote: We discussed Plaga's paper back in June, 2002. I reported some skeptical analysis of the paper by John Baez of sci.physics fame, at http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3686.html . I also gave some reasons of my own why arbitrary inter-universe