Thank you for this lucid explanation; I'm now clear as to how we would confirm the calculations. Again, apologizing for my ignorance... Have such calculations...
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Ilovegates123@...
Oct 1, 2000 12:46 pm
Thank you all for your words of wisdom... Considering your replies and David's theory brought to mind something I read long ago (again cannot recall where)...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Oct 1, 2000 12:47 pm
I apologize for the imprecision of language. As a lay person, I often express the complexities of quantum physics in confusing ways. Nevertheless, if I'm not...
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andy gibson
andy@...
Oct 1, 2000 7:02 pm
... From: Bacon, Michael To: 'Fabric-of-Reality@egroups.com' Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 5:30 AM Subject: RE: Reading List I apologize for the imprecision...
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Robin Green
greenrd@...
Oct 1, 2000 7:04 pm
... They're very different issues. The various competing claims about the number of dimensions in the universe (which refers to the three spatial dimensions, ...
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Gary S. Bekkum
gbekkum@...
Oct 1, 2000 10:09 pm
Since David did not address the new theories of large extra dimensions as solutions to the the gravity problem, I am wondering if he might at the least express...
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David Deutsch
david.deutsch@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:57 am
For instance, does the heliocentric theory of astronomical phenomena "require" the Earth actually to be moving? does it require the actual existence of other...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Oct 2, 2000 12:18 pm
... Einstein and the other chap were talking about the topology (think of it as geometry if you will) of space(-time). Depending on the theory, there are from...
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StokesEA@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:40 pm
Does IBM's announcement about quantum computers last month (see http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0815quantum.html) mean that we know the calculations actually...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:41 pm
... Why the evolution of the system constitutes a calculation is explained by showing how the changes in the system as described by the equations of QM amount...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:41 pm
... The heliocentric theory states that the Earth and other planets move around the sun; it is quite clear what the theory is telling us about the world. ... ...
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felix@...
Oct 4, 2000 1:22 am
... Try the theory of gravity, then, and the heliocentric interpretation of it. It's not clear what the theory of gravity is telling us, so far as planets are...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:25 am
... But quantum theory does state the existence of many-worlds. That is why some people have invented the "collapse of the wave" which is just an attempt to...
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Martin Thompson
martin@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:26 am
09:01:14 Tue, 3 Oct 2000 ... I don't know about that, but a working quantum computer was reported in New Scientist magazine about three years ago. I don't have...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:27 am
... Pethaps only if you have already decided that many-worlds is the only possible explanation. ... Try Bohm, dynamical reduction, modal interpretations and...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 4, 2000 1:31 pm
... Bohm entails many-worlds (but it has a rather curious rule for transforming poor inhabitants of most worlds into zombies). Dynamical reduction ? I guess...
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David Miller, Ph.D.
davidmiller@...
Oct 5, 2000 2:13 am
The wide-ranging discussion on this e-list has not really come to grips with the central issue of the "many-universe" theory as presented by David Deutsch in...
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suzann4569@...
Oct 5, 2000 2:14 am
Whatever happened to ion trap QC's? I thought they were supposed to be able to create arbitrary quantum states....and held such promise. Does anyone so...
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suzann4569@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:35 am
Perhaps you "get it" without realising it. You are (obviously) well educated--(maybe even brilliant as you suggest David Deutsch to be) also obvious is the...
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Bacon, Michael
mbacon@...
Oct 5, 2000 4:11 am
David H. Miller, Ph.D. wrote: "Ockham's razor demands that we not hypothesize the existence of an infinity of unobservable universes unless there is compelling...
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Jim Davidson
JDavidson@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:02 pm
Dear Dr. Miller, ... Yes, he has. Good, possibly good enough. ... States that we should not multiply entities unnecessarily. ... In this case, it seems very...
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David Miller
davidmiller@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:02 pm
At 11:12 PM 10/4/00 -0400, suzann4569@... ... Actually, my interest in Bohm-like theories and in many-universe theory tags me as a bit of a radical among...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:02 pm
... I still don't see how you can understand the physical reality of the particle riding the wave through either one or the other of the slits without invoking...
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StokesEA@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:03 pm
David Miller, Ph.D. writes: "There is, as Deutsch notes, one important difference between classical waves and quantum phenomena. There is no problem with a...
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Marchal
marchal@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:03 pm
... But you cannot simulate the entanglement phenomenon with classical waves. A paper which insists on that point is the one by Jozsa quant-ph/9805086 at...
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Chris Timpson
christopher.timpson@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:03 pm
... I like your way of putting the point! Bell, for one, however, sees things running the other way (see `Quantum Mechanics for Cosmologists' repr. in ...
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Damien Broderick
d.broderick@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:03 pm
... Yeah, and in fact his ability to explore a theory is probably so not not limitied by his basic knowledge of the underlying mathamatics and physics that he...
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David Miller
davidmiller@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:03 pm
At 01:14 PM 10/5/00 +0900, Michael Bacon wrote: ... Price is mistaken here: Ockham's razor was : "non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem" i.e.,...
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Jussi Kantola
Jussi.Kantola@...
Oct 5, 2000 3:21 pm
... If you are wrong, then multiverse is clearly just as (un)exciting as the single universe >;-). -- email: Jussi.Kantola@... (Jussi Kantola) A mind...
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ettinger@...
Oct 5, 2000 7:45 pm
Previously I listed 4 things that trouble me about many worlds, but forgot to mention two others: 5. FoR says a real obstacle blocks a shadow photon, but a...
