Physicist And Stunt Rider Create World's First 'Einstein Flip' http://www.studyandjobs.com/Einstein_Flip.html Regads StudyAndSicence...
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Ray Mondor
mondorray
Jun 7, 2006 8:14 pm
I wonder whether the explanation for "non-local" influences like those in the EPR experiment might lie in the "curled up" dimensions of superstring theory. Is...
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Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Jun 7, 2006 8:53 pm
... those in the EPR experiment might lie in the "curled up" dimensions of superstring theory. I don't know much about superstring theory, but I rather suspect...
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Ray Mondor
mondorray
Jun 8, 2006 9:10 pm
Alan, thanks for your thoughtful reply. I see your point and it is very interesting to note that under MWI assumptions there is no non-local effect. However...
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Gary Oberbrunner
garyo2
Jun 8, 2006 9:33 pm
... Indeed. Most people agree you have to give up one of these three: * locality (i.e. accept faster-than-light information transmission) * single-valued...
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Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Jun 8, 2006 9:51 pm
... In what sense does it work best? Alan Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com...
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Elliot Temple
curi42
Jun 9, 2006 4:44 pm
... it isn't just that, is it? you also have to imagine everything does information processing instantly to know what to do. ... isn't it valid to think of MWI...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jun 9, 2006 4:50 pm
From: Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Oberbrunner ... The third alternative is slightly...
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Ray Mondor
mondorray
Jun 9, 2006 4:52 pm
... Bohm's interpretation preserves causality while avoiding "multiplying entities unnecessarily". Scientists have always assumed that events are determined by...
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Gary Oberbrunner
garyo2
Jun 9, 2006 5:36 pm
... Sure, but that's not what *most* people think of as single-valued. They think at any x,y,z,t there is a single value of the observable. I was trying to ...
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Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Jun 9, 2006 6:14 pm
... Your argument fails in at least two distinct ways. First, the entities of Occam's Razor are the assumptions you have to make to explain what is going on...
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Elliot Temple
curi42
Jun 9, 2006 6:15 pm
... it's not a matter of counting entities. i think there are far more than 77 people on earth. but this is not a violation. claiming the universe is bigger...
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Ray Mondor
mondorray
Jun 11, 2006 9:14 pm
It seems that Bohm's interpretation and MWI are very similar. Both support determinism and real waveforms; both avoid collapsing wavefunctions. I think the...
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Gerhen
gerhen3
Jun 12, 2006 6:33 pm
"Fabric of Reality" (time travel chapter)mentions a limit that: "no time machine provides pathways to times earlier than the moment at which they came into...
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Stephen Paul King
stephankrieg
Jun 12, 2006 7:42 pm
Dear Gerhen, Some thoughts on your post interleaven below. ... From: "Gerhen" <infideli@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, June...
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Gary Oberbrunner
garyo2
Jun 12, 2006 7:51 pm
... It *is* based on that discussion and although it's a simple consequence of how such machines would be constructed, IMHO it's not without value because it ...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jun 12, 2006 9:20 pm
... The source is general relativity, which is of course out current best theory of space-time. There are various solutions to the equations of GR which permit...
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Gerhen
gerhen3
Jun 13, 2006 5:14 pm
... moment at ... address ... based upon ... the ... consequence of how ... because it ... time travel ... dinosaurs. ... When I said that the statement had no...
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Gerhen
gerhen3
Jun 13, 2006 5:14 pm
... time travel device would be limited to journies into times of its own existence? -Gerhen (me) ... device is one and the same device under each of these...
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Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Jun 13, 2006 5:20 pm
... This is true. If you have two classical systems S1 and S2 described by N1 and N2 real numbers, then the description of the joint system composed of S1 and...
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Henry Sturman
hrsturman
Jun 13, 2006 5:20 pm
Today, according to Hong Kong radio RTHK, Stephen Hawking predicted that within 20 years the first people will move to the moon and that the first colony on...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
Jun 14, 2006 4:45 pm
... The risk of extinction may well be growing, but space colonisation won't prevent it, at least not in the short term. Colonies on the Moon and Mars would...
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Johnathan Corgan
jcorgan
Jun 14, 2006 4:53 pm
... Somewhat trite, but memorable quote: "The problem with the dinosaurs is that they didn't have a space program." -Robert Heinlein -Johnathan...
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Elliot Temple
curi42
Jun 14, 2006 6:18 pm
... really? compared to what alternative? which other way to create technology have we chosen against, that'd be safer? presumably the less-risky way can't be...
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DJ
dj@...
Jun 15, 2006 5:49 pm
... Odds are high that there will be neither moon nor mars colonies, which is disappointing (I'm on the board of a space-exploration charity and spent my...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Jun 15, 2006 5:49 pm
... Do you know the story (legend) of the invention of the shoes by the Chinese people? There was, once upon a time, a very kind king who was suffering for ...
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Alan Forrester
alan_forrester2
Jun 15, 2006 6:26 pm
... In fact there's plenty of oil left in sources like oil shale: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.sum.pdf And even if there wasn't, we...
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Ray Mondor
mondorray
Jun 15, 2006 6:36 pm
Alan, thanks for your persistence. It has helped me to clarify and deepen my understanding. I have become intrigued enough by this discussion to read "Fabric...
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DJ
dj@...
Jun 15, 2006 9:13 pm
... Case in point. There is indeed plenty of oil left in oil shale.... and there always will be. I didn't check the link, but I think I recall Rand and others...
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Elliot Temple
curi42
Jun 16, 2006 4:18 pm
There was a relevant bet made. It has already been resolved. http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/People/julian_simon.html ... -- Elliot Temple ...
