Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jeff Bone
Hot off the press, via Boingsters: http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/26/many_worlds_theory_i.html Many Worlds theory invalidated Kathryn Cramer breaks the story on a to-be-presented Harvard talk on an experiment that appears to invalidate both the "Many Worlds" and "Copenhagen" theories of q

Re: Many Worlds invalidated?

2004-04-26 Thread Jeff Bone
BTW, just a caveat --- and I should've caveated the initial forward. I'm not endorsing this or any interpretation of this experiment at all, rather just offering it up to the list in case others had not seen it. $0.02, jb On Apr 26, 2004, at 2:34 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: Hal Finney wrote: T

Djinni vs. White Rabbit

2004-08-19 Thread Jeff Bone
At some point in the past various of us have argued about whether the simulation argument and / or the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics implies an "every possible world" (EPW) interpretation, i.e. one in which highly improbable events, laws of physics, etc. obtain. Stumble

Re: Djinni vs. White Rabbit

2004-08-19 Thread Jeff Bone
On Aug 19, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Hal Finney wrote: It's not clear to me that causality and time are inherent properties of worlds. I include worlds which can be thought of as n-dimensional cells that satisfy some constraints. Among those constraints could be ones which induce the effects we identify