If you look back in the archives, you'll see a thread I started a few months ago titled "Where do all the universes 'live'? How many dimensions are needed?"...
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Doug Donaghue at 054
DDonaghue@...
May 1, 2002 8:44 am
... Neither is mine. I'm just a simple mathematician. But we're all here to kick around ideas and have fun, so jump on in. ... In another Universe (assuming...
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Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
May 1, 2002 8:45 am
... This is wildly inaccurate and IMO a gross misrepresentation of Popper. Popper refers to "our rational belief" in the degree of verisimilitude of a theory. ...
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Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
May 1, 2002 8:45 am
... Funny, then, that Popper himself uses the term "rational belief". According to you, this might as well be "irrational belief". ... You are hairsplitting. I...
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Aki Tasa
akitasaus
May 1, 2002 8:46 am
... Yes, more specificly the distribution of mass has evolved so that the group of lighter particles now has more mass, the group of heavier particles has less...
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nickwinning
May 1, 2002 8:46 am
... I have no intention of providing a good argument as to why quantum mechanics cannot allow free will. If I created this expectation, I am sorry for the...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
May 1, 2002 8:47 am
... From: "Charles Goodwin" <charles@e...> Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 8:55 am ... don't ... just ... You've quoted me somewhat out of context. I wasn't...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
May 1, 2002 8:47 am
From: "nickwinning" <nickwinning@h...> Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2002 3:23 am ... You are probably right. I guess energy is an emergent property within each ...
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Gary Oberbrunner
garyo2
May 1, 2002 8:47 am
... But it certainly *does* make sense to sum energy over *spatial* dimensions. So the question is whether the different-universe-dimensions are more...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
May 1, 2002 8:48 am
... From: "nickwinning" <nickwinning@h...> Date: Tuesday, 30 April 2002 2:48 am ... only ... seen or ... I am happy to equate self with person and don't...
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DJ White
dj@...
May 1, 2002 8:48 am
Hi there. This is no part of any ongoing thread on this list; due to time pressures I have been unable to keep up with reading everything which comes through...
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George Simpson
SimpsonsinFleet@...
May 1, 2002 8:48 am
Of course, it is true that a high-energy particle can do split into others. (I did my PhD thesis on cosmic rays, which do this all the time). They can do it...
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George Simpson
SimpsonsinFleet@...
May 1, 2002 8:49 am
In answer to your last question, we want to explore the hypothesis that "branching worlds that never encounter one another again could be an ...
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Eugene Shikhovtsev
eshi@...
May 1, 2002 8:49 am
Let me try to answer. 100 years ago some peoples derived (nobody knows how) some physical equations. These equations describe any object in terms of its...
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Paul Zielinski
pzielins@...
May 1, 2002 9:00 am
More comments: ... You are apparently conflating "induction" and "inductive logic" or "Humean inductive inference"; I am not. My dictionary agrees with me. You...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
May 1, 2002 9:45 am
... From: "nickwinning" <nickwinning@...> ... This is not true according to the MWI, which allows - in fact requires - that the...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
May 1, 2002 4:32 pm
... From: "nickwinning" <nickwinning@...> ... Despite the stunning success of physical and biological theories, and the stunning lack of success of...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
May 1, 2002 4:33 pm
... From: "Gary Oberbrunner" <garyo@...> ... Ahem, I don't *believe* that an infinite number of dimensions are needed. In fact I'm not even sure that...
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Brett Hall
brhallway
May 1, 2002 4:34 pm
... This is absurd (strictly speaking). It's not a "choice" unless you *can* do otherwise. If he made the choice, then he was free. If he was compelled to do...
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nickwinning
May 1, 2002 4:35 pm
... Piont conceded. Although I am not talking about the MWI of quantum theory. I am talking about a many worlds block universe in which differences between...
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june.shippey@...
May 2, 2002 8:49 am
... [Gordon]The whole concept of Dimension has not be question and really when looking at it is like a house of card with many Paradox's even Einstein did not...
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George Simpson
SimpsonsinFleet@...
May 2, 2002 8:50 am
Let me try again to express what I am groping towards. I'm sure I expressed it badly the first time. First, I used the word "branches"; inappropriately. I'm...
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George Simpson
SimpsonsinFleet@...
May 2, 2002 8:50 am
... As I said, the number of particles is changing, but within the constraint of the total mass, which is thought to be fixed. All I require is that the rate...
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nickwinning
May 2, 2002 8:50 am
... I was contrasting moral theory with physical, biological, and social theory. Would you say that moral theory is much less successful in explaning moral...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
May 2, 2002 8:51 am
... From: "Brett Hall" <brhall@...> ... As far as I can see, free will is what happens when you "could have chosen otherwise". Hence in the MWI...
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Charles Goodwin
charlesgoodw...
May 2, 2002 8:51 am
... From: "nickwinning" <nickwinning@...> ... Obviously they *can* be held responsible. The question is, I assume, should they? Which is outside the...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
May 2, 2002 8:51 am
... Yes, the universe is locally flat but I think it is still an open issue whether the universe is spatially infinite or not. From what I've read, we seem to...
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jzellis
May 2, 2002 8:51 am
... I did a web search for Planck cells, which I'm not familiar with (hardly surprisingly), but I couldn't find a basic explanation. But I'm interested in what...
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Brian Scurfield
mayorofcool
May 2, 2002 8:52 am
... This is a good point. Presumably each version of our brain would then make up some story explaining why it's "self" chose the corresponding course of ...
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Kenneth Allen Hopf
khopf@...
May 2, 2002 8:52 am
In response to Paul Zielinski, PZ>To say that an effect or phenomenon is *reproducible* is not merely to ... KAH>Rubbish. Saying that an effect is...
