Re: The seven step series

2009-07-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Marty, On 03 Jul 2009, at 00:18, m.a. wrote: > Bruno, > Comments and questions are interspersed below. > > marty > Just tell me if you agree. I agree and can't understand

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Jul 2009, at 20:48, Brian Tenneson wrote: > Thanks. > > How does Tegmark's Physical Existence = Mathematical Existence > hypothesis fit or not fit into this? It fits well, I mean better than anythings else (except perhaps Wheeler), but yet ... not so well. What is common, is the open-

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Jul 2009, at 21:37, Brent Meeker wrote: > > John Mikes wrote: >> Brian, >> I started to read the text and found the 1st sentence: >> >> /"In modern cosmology, a / >> >> /multiverse is defined to be a collection of possible physical >> universes"/ >> >> that pissed me off: 'possible' in o

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-03 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > ... > Due to Dirac, in Quantum Mechanics, I tend to believe that brackets > are "<" and ">". parentheses are "(" and ")". I call "{" and "}" > accolades, but perhaps they are called bracket. The terms are not > important as far as we understand each other. How would you c

Re: Non unique Universe

2009-07-03 Thread Brent Meeker
Bruno Marchal wrote: > On 02 Jul 2009, at 21:37, Brent Meeker wrote: > > >> John Mikes wrote: >> >>> Brian, >>> I started to read the text and found the 1st sentence: >>> >>> /"In modern cosmology, a / >>> >>> /multiverse is defined to be a collection of possible physical >>> universes"/

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-03 Thread m.a.
New comments in italics. For example {1,2} INTERSECTION {2, 7} is equal to some set, actually the set {2}. OK?..No! Why not the sets {1,2,7} if INTERSECTION means BOTH? Ah,