Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-15 Thread Wei Dai
ng machine in algorithmic information theory. Our aesthetic choices can therefore be encoded into this free parameter. - Original Message - From: Kim Jones To: Wei Dai Cc: everything-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:40 PM Subject: Re: Multivers

Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-15 Thread Saibal Mitra
@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:45 AM Subject: Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory Hi Saibal, Does this not lead one to suspect that they secretly believe SUSY to be "not even wrong" and yet seek to save face? My problem is that any scientific t

Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-14 Thread Stephen Paul King
et.com/why?AngelsOnTheHeadsOfPins Onward! Stephen - Original Message - From: Saibal Mitra To: Stephen Paul King ; everything-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 6:20 PM Subject: Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory Stephen, Theorists

Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-14 Thread Kim Jones
Thankyou.So it used to be "science and religion."In fact it should have been all along "science and religion and art".Is it possible that we've been missing an important part of the discussion here?Art (painting, music - whatever) is the revelation of 1st person experience; the 'word of the

Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-13 Thread Hal Finney
I recently happened upon a physics related blog and discovered that there has been an active debate within the physics community for the past few weeks, months and years about string theory and its relation to multiverse concepts. The blog is Not Even Wrong,

RE: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-13 Thread Jonathan Colvin
Hal wrote: I also get the impression that Susskind's attempts to bring disreputable multiverse models into holy string theory is more likely to kill string theory than to rehabilitate multiverses. Perhaps I am getting a biased view by only reading this one blog, which opposes string theory,

Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
Le 13-févr.-06, à 09:44, Hal Finney wrote (in part): In many of our discussions of multiverse models, we have explicitly or implicitly included the notion of measure, that some universes would be more common or more prominent than others. This is often linked to extensions of Occam's Razor,

Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-13 Thread Wei Dai
Hal wrote: I also get the impression that Susskind's attempts to bring "disreputable" multiverse models into "holy" string theory is more likely to kill string theory than to rehabilitate multiverses. Perhaps I am getting a biased view by only reading this one blog, which opposes string

Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory

2006-02-13 Thread Stephen Paul King
e context of physics. ;-) Onward! Stephen - Original Message - From: Wei Dai To: everything-list@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:06 PM Subject: Re: Multiverse concepts in string theory Hal wrote: I also get the impression that Susskind's attempts to