Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-21 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
In reply to posts by Hal Finney and Bruno Marchal-- Hal: I found the paper you referred to, and it certainly has some very interesting ideas, for example the idea that the arrow of time is actually an anthropic artefact. I admit that I have much reading to do if I am to understand the paper

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-20 Thread John M
AM Subject: Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology? At 20:46 17/07/04 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: I have been wondering about the possibility that all possible worlds exist, but sequentially rather than simultaneously, under a conservative cosmology with assumptions

All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
I have been wondering about the possibility that all possible worlds exist, but sequentially rather than simultaneously, under a conservative cosmology with assumptions as follows: 1. There exists one, and only one, real, physical universe; 2. While it is possible to simulate any subset of

Re: All possible worlds in a single world cosmology?

2004-07-17 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 18 July 2004 Hal Finney wrote: QUOTE- We had some discussion a while back about a paper which proposed some similar ideas, http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0208013, Disturbing implications of a cosmological constant. If you want to look in the archives, the thread was called Doomsday-like