Re: Quantum Immortality considering "Passing Out"

2010-05-25 Thread Michael Gough
The branching is occurring at every moment, so if even one set of said parents got it on, there would be "umpteen trillons(TM)" of copies of said individual. It has nothing to do really with the parents at all. Once you exist, there's umpteen trillions of copies that stem from the state of the indi

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Gough
I understand. I was trying ask about whether or not, if there were say 10^10^10 slits, would the electron go through all of them. Do we know for sure? Also, I want the inside of time answer. Right now, in the multiverse, it seems like the number of differentiated states may be a very large number,

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Gough
Thank you. However, I don't understand your objection to an infinite number of states. > The universe in which we live appears by current measurements to be > infinite > in size (because it is geometrically flat), and will last forever (because > its expansion is hastening). Yes, but space may b

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Gough
So you are saying the mass of the universe is infinite. On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, A. Wolf wrote: > > > Yes, but space may be simply the coordinate system in which matter and > > energy move. Even if the coordinate system is infinite, it doesn't matter > > because the particles' occupy a f

Re: Newbie Questions

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Gough
Getting back to the original question: Are ALL quantum variations explored? So let me ask some more basic questions: How many distinct choices of new state does a particle, say an electron, have at each time quanta? Let's call that number X. In an admittedly over-simplified universe of two part

Re: UDA and interference of histories

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Gough
> > In a sense, I don't see how a computation could be "cancelled" by > > another one. > About a year ago I asked Deutsch about cancellation. My idea was that universes could annihilate each other if a particle was out of phase with its counterpart in another otherwise consistent universe. He said