Hi James,
I don't want to get into the Platonism discussion as I'm not of a
philosophical bent, but I would like to start discussion based on
something you wrote in one of your posts on the subject:
James N Rose wrote:
The square root of a negative number has no physical
reality (or so it
Hey all,
Nice to see some activity on this list again.
I think the filament's blown, but then again I'm a physicist :-)
Matt.
Norman Samish wrote:
Perhaps you've heard of Thompson's Lamp. This is an ideal lamp, capable of
infinite switching speed and using electricity that
Hello Frederico,
I've recently been taking part in a discussion on very similar lines
on the Fabric of Reality mailing list (yahoo groups).
Federico Marulli wrote:
My reasoning is rather simple. Dealing with an infinite level 1
multiuniverse, if an event, even an improbable one, doesn't
Hi Hal,
Hal Finney wrote:
Matt King writes:
I should point out that there does remain a vanishingly small
possibility that we could be in one of the extremely 'magical' universes
where both macroscopic and microscopic laws of physics are skewed in a
mutually consistent way, however given
Hi Hal,
I agree with everything you wrote about duplication...but I have to
take issue with your last point.
Hal Finney wrote:
Another interesting result of this paper concerned daughter universes.
In some models, it may be possible to trigger the formation of new
inflating regions which
Hello Stathis and James,
In answer to the first question, does the multiverse inlude perfect
duplications of entire universes, the answer is yes with a but. Any
particular universe in it can be sliced up in any number of ways, just
as 1 = (1/n + 1/n + 1/n. n times) for any value of n.
Hello David,
David Kwinter wrote:
Another quickie:
Assume I survive a car/plane crash which we assume could have many
different quantum outcomes including me (dead || alive)
Since I was the same person (entire life history) up until the
crash/quantum 'branch' - then can't I assume that since
Hello Hal,
Hal Finney wrote:
You can indeed choose to believe that as long as any version of yourself
continues in any universe, then you will consider yourself to still
be alive. You could also choose the contrary, that if the total measure
(ie. probability) of your survival is extremely
Hi Benjamin,
Benjamin Udell wrote:
Assume I survive a car/plane crash which we assume could have many different quantum outcomes including me (dead || alive)
Since I was the same person (entire life history) up until the crash/quantum 'branch' - then can't I assume that since there was at least
Hello David,
David Barrett-Lennard wrote:
Please note that my understanding of QM is rather lame... Doesn't MWI
require some interaction between branches in order to explain things
like interference patterns in the two slit experiment? What does this
mean for the concept of identity?
- David
Hello Eric,
Just my tuppenceworth...
Eric Cavalcanti wrote:
I think this discussion might have already took place
here, but I would like to take you opinions on this.
How do we define (de)coherence? What makes interference
happen or be lost?
First, these are two separate questions.
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