I'm about half way through FOR and have so far found some of the ideas very compelling. While sharing them with some friends, however, I find some of the...
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David Deutsch
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Jul 11, 2000 7:35 pm
... You and your friends are going to have to decide whether you are going to rely on scientific and philosophical reasoning, or base your world view on ...
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Martin Thompson
martin@...
Jul 11, 2000 8:00 pm
11:19:55 Fri, 30 Jun 2000 ... No. That's what infinity implies. There is also an infinite number of Universes that don't differ at all from ours. -- Martin...
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Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Jul 11, 2000 8:37 pm
... This comment sent me back to p. 46 of FOR, where David writes: "A remark about terminology. The word 'universe' has traditionally been used to mean 'the...
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Pawel Gburzynski
pawel@...
Jul 11, 2000 8:37 pm
... Two things that are completely identical, i.e., in the same quantum state, and cannot be told apart even in principle, are the same one thing. Therefore, I...
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wdeshleman@...
Jul 11, 2000 8:39 pm
But "placement of backsides" are quantized, does that mean that if 2 inches is the quantum we will not find displacements of 1 or 3, etc? --Bill In a message...
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ettinger@...
Jul 11, 2000 10:37 pm
<< There exists an entire universe exactly the same as this one in absolutely ... Nobody likes a quibbler, but I can't resist pointing out that this is ...
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David Rysdam
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Jul 11, 2000 10:44 pm
I finished reading FoR about 3 weeks ago and immediately signed onto the mailing list--but no traffic. Very sad. Then today: 4 messages! Woohoo! So here's my...
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Richard Lubbock
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Jul 11, 2000 10:49 pm
... Richard Lubbock remarks: I think this is where the legal expression "mutatis mutandis" comes in handy. That is, "changing those things that have to be...
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Louise Deveney
ldeveney@...
Jul 12, 2000 1:54 am
If you study set theory you will find that there are indeed more than one infinity. Cantor brought the concept of infinity up from the old version of an...
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Alvaro Carvalho
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Jul 12, 2000 2:53 am
For those who have not read the Letter: "Quantum theory needs no 'interpretation'" by C. Fuchs and Asher Peres (Physics Today -March 2000), here are some short...
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Pawel Gburzynski
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Jul 12, 2000 3:18 am
... As I understand it, the issue of cardinality of the Multiverse is irrelevant. Thinking in terms of an infinite number of identical universes is a...
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Russell Standish
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Jul 12, 2000 1:27 pm
... Not true. According to standard QM, phase space is discretised - around each point (x,p) in phase space, is an area (shaped like a convex diamond) that is...
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Martin Thompson
martin@...
Jul 12, 2000 1:29 pm
13:30:34 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 ... Could each universe have its own quantum number? -- Martin Thompson martin@... London, UK Home Page:...
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Nigel Wright
nwright@...
Jul 14, 2000 3:03 am
I guess I am wondering where the difference is, experimentally, between the following two interpretations of QM results (I will use a simple example for ...
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David Deutsch
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Jul 16, 2000 12:28 am
... Amazing! They really need to read FoR, don't they? ... It certainly isn't. And what follows now is worse than inductivism, it's ... No, but that's not what...
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tyromancer@...
Jul 16, 2000 3:19 am
Hello All! I have found FoR an intriguing and challenging book, and hope that I can find some assistance in this newsgroup with suggestions for further reading...
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Lynch, Mark
mlynch@...
Jul 17, 2000 2:30 pm
Around page 200 or so, Deutsch describes a simple optical device consisting of four mirrors; two 100% reflective, and two 50% reflective. Do you know the one...
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Lynch, Mark
mlynch@...
Jul 17, 2000 2:30 pm
Considering the emphasis placed on vitual reality not so much as a pragmatic application but a teaching tool in FoR, I wonder if Dr. Deutsch found the movie...
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rhill10452@...
Jul 17, 2000 8:15 pm
In a message dated 16/07/00 04:20:34 GMT Daylight Time, tyromancer@... ... The only explicit reference Dawkins has made to FoR that i am aware of comes...
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Martin Thompson
martin@...
Jul 17, 2000 8:16 pm
The equipment in physics labs I have used has been ultra-cheap bottom of the barrel stuff. I don't know about the single photon detectors though. I can't...
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Lynch, Mark
mlynch@...
Jul 17, 2000 8:38 pm
ML> >Around page 200 or so, Deutsch describes a simple optical ML> device consisting ML> >of four mirrors; two 100% reflective, and two 50% ML> reflective. Do...
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wriker@...
Jul 17, 2000 10:45 pm
... Anything's possible. Sorry, couldn't resist. I always interpreted the idea to mean that with every decision that is ever made, or with everything that...
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Cristina
cristina@...
Jul 18, 2000 12:49 am
... Hi Erik: This is also how I see it too. If quanta behaves as a wave unless it is observed and then becomes a particle in the possible world of the...
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Sarah Lawrence
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Jul 18, 2000 7:14 pm
At 1:12 pm +0000 on 16/7/00, in a message whose subject was ... I think you'll *love* David's next book, *The Beginning of Infinity*. Hurry up and finish it,...
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Sarah Lawrence
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Jul 18, 2000 9:00 pm
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Mail user
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Jul 19, 2000 1:02 pm
Parallel world Interpretation I wonder is the other parallel world's believed/interpreted to be something 'hidden' or just many just like 'our' world. Or...
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Anthony Allan
anthony@...
Jul 19, 2000 2:35 pm
G -- My reading is that all worlds are equally real (at least, to the sentients inhabiting them). Some are similar to ours, but sufficiently different to our...
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Cristina
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Jul 19, 2000 8:53 pm
... Ant: Regarding moving between these worlds, a few of these worlds may be so closely related to the one we are in that if we moved from one to another we...
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DJW
dj@...
Jul 19, 2000 11:25 pm
... an enormous number of them would be "indistinguishable", right? (a non-infinite but unthinkably large count) ... As I understand it, probably poorly, the...
