Re: The grandfather paradox, redux

2019-03-24 Thread Philip Thrift


On Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 3:48:30 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote:
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> cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox
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> In the usual EPR-type experiment, a particle A is sent westward and 
> "correlated" particle B is sent eastward. (A could travel 5 miles and B 
> could travel just 5 feet, for example.) But their detection outputs show 
> that A and B are "entangled" so that apparently the detection setups at 
> both ends influences the "final" states of A and B.
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> In another EPR-type experiment, an emitter sends one particle A "skyward" 
> into space, and simultaneously a twin particle B to a detector nearby. 
> Depending on what the B detector measures, an unlucky grandfather is killed 
> or not. The A particle bends around a massive object (its path bent by 
> general relativity - it could also be more than one massive object involved 
> in its travel)  light years away and returns to Earth 30 years later when 
> that grandfather's grandchild has set up a detector for A whose measurement 
> results in the grandfather's death.
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> - pt
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I should add that the difference in the above example from the typical one

A-detector   <-   Source -> B-detector
A   B

is that in the typical example the time of travel A and the time of travel 
of B are fairly equal (though both very short), but in the above example 
the time of travel of A is decades, while B stays the same.

- pt

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Re: The grandfather paradox, redux

2019-03-24 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I always liked Deutsch's version of MWI better. You kill Gramps but not in your 
own universe.I also liked Trans-Earth's trading or warfare. Maybe trade, and 
forget the war?
We could do trade with other successful human species like worlds where 
Neanderthals or Boskops hit the bigtime?Alternate Earth's vacations might be 
fun, dating?


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From: Philip Thrift 
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Sent: Sun, Mar 24, 2019 4:48 am
Subject: The grandfather paradox, redux



cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Grandfather_paradox

In the usual EPR-type experiment, a particle A is sent westward and 
"correlated" particle B is sent eastward. (A could travel 5 miles and B could 
travel just 5 feet, for example.) But their detection outputs show that A and B 
are "entangled" so that apparently the detection setups at both ends influences 
the "final" states of A and B.

In another EPR-type experiment, an emitter sends one particle A "skyward" into 
space, and simultaneously a twin particle B to a detector nearby. Depending on 
what the B detector measures, an unlucky grandfather is killed or not. The A 
particle bends around a massive object (its path bent by general relativity - 
it could also be more than one massive object involved in its travel)  light 
years away and returns to Earth 30 years later when that grandfather's 
grandchild has set up a detector for A whose measurement results in the 
grandfather's death.

- pt
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The grandfather paradox, redux

2019-03-24 Thread Philip Thrift


cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox


In the usual EPR-type experiment, a particle A is sent westward and 
"correlated" particle B is sent eastward. (A could travel 5 miles and B 
could travel just 5 feet, for example.) But their detection outputs show 
that A and B are "entangled" so that apparently the detection setups at 
both ends influences the "final" states of A and B.


In another EPR-type experiment, an emitter sends one particle A "skyward" 
into space, and simultaneously a twin particle B to a detector nearby. 
Depending on what the B detector measures, an unlucky grandfather is killed 
or not. The A particle bends around a massive object (its path bent by 
general relativity - it could also be more than one massive object involved 
in its travel)  light years away and returns to Earth 30 years later when 
that grandfather's grandchild has set up a detector for A whose measurement 
results in the grandfather's death.


- pt

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