Speaking of Feynman integrals... In his QED, Feynman uses "virtual photons" in his description of partical interactions. "Virtual" sounds familiar, yes? Has...
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Marchal Bruno
marchal@...
Dec 5, 2002 5:36 pm
... This is an interesting question. I have had a discussion about it on this list with Saibal Mitra. We have not yet really conclude the discussion. The...
... of ... Yes, but it doesn't seem to be the same thing as parallel universes. Whenver you make a measurement you end up observing a particular universe (the...
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Tony Hollick
C4ISR@...
Dec 6, 2002 4:28 pm
... From: "Marchal Bruno" <marchal@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:56 AM Subject: Re: Fine- and...
In a message dated 12/5/2002 5:58:57 PM GMT Standard Time, ... Maybe virtual photons exist in universes which are cancelled out by interference? Charles ...
... To start the question, we could list what photon P and virtual photon vP share and don't share. The obvious is that they are both messenger particles. The...
... http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2000/teaching/resource/lessons/interact/2_exch.htm ... No. It is inappropriate to describe light going...
... From your statement, it appears to me that this multiverse Photon (responsible for the interference pattern) is considered a Universal Object that...
Death sucks. However, seeing as its conceivable that medicine won't advance fast enough to make us all immortal within the sadly finite span we might have...
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june.shippey@...
Dec 8, 2002 8:16 pm
... Oh so you can define what life is then? ;) Gordon....
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Woty Free
woty@...
Dec 8, 2002 9:47 pm
... From: <june.shippey@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 11:09 AM Subject: Re: How to see the future? ... ...
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Roger Davies
roger.davies@...
Dec 10, 2002 4:21 pm
Life is turning into different people - I am not the same person I was even 5 minutes ago. I'm thinking something else. What good would it be thinking ...
To Everyone, I enjoy reading your discussions but don't have enough knowledge to join in and contribute. Also I often don't understand what is said cause I...
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Woty Free
woty@...
Dec 10, 2002 4:22 pm
... From: <Vikee1@...> To: <woty@...>; <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: Re: How to see the future? ...
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Tony Hollick
C4ISR@...
Dec 10, 2002 4:23 pm
Brooding on your mortality again, I see... Only a determinist can think anyone can see the future. Of course, in SR and GR, 'space-time' is a completely...
... IMHO, hat's like saying that observing the product of 4 and 5 is observing only a 20, not the combination of the 4 and the 5. Of course it's really both....
... "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses. And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." -Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" An...
In a message dated 12/10/2002 4:25:01 PM GMT Standard Time, ... I see you don't believe the "Quantum theory of immortality" Charles [Non-text portions of this...
... What makes you think that your identity will survive sleeping? Or sneezing? ... Identical twins can testify that two entities with the same DNA are not ...
At 7:47 am +0000 on 9/12/02, in a message titled "Re: How to see the ... What makes you think it wouldn't? Where is this if it is not preserved with brain...
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Stephen Paul King
stephenk1@...
Dec 11, 2002 12:17 am
Dear David, ... [SPK] Could you elaborate on the meaning of the term "person" as you are using it? Is there any requirement of physical resources for a qubit...
Suppose... Nothing, nothingness, and it's associates, (meaning death, etc.) is the original "door to elsewhere?" Certainly not an original thought and I dunno...
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Robert Harrigan
harrigan@...
Dec 11, 2002 1:26 pm
In reading this news group, I have yet to find the definition of the "MIND". Here is what I know of the Brain, Mind and Body. The brain and body can NOT...
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Tony Hollick
C4ISR@...
Dec 11, 2002 1:27 pm
... From: "David Deutsch" <david.deutsch@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: Continuity of the...
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Tony Hollick
C4ISR@...
Dec 11, 2002 1:28 pm
... From: <PaintedDevil@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:54 PM Subject: Re: How to see the future? ... span ...
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Tony Hollick
C4ISR@...
Dec 11, 2002 1:28 pm
... From: "Sarah Lawrence" <sl@...> To: <Fabric-of-Reality@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: Re: How to see the future? ......
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DJ White
dj@...
Dec 11, 2002 1:29 pm
... I agree. But I find some comfort in the very concept of a static multiverse. It presumably requires that each of us be as immortal as the multiverse...
... Woty you ask if I agree with this or not. I'm reminded of Clinton and "is" and I agree with him.....definitions are always important and they vary! Human...
... To be precise, you want to live longer. Because cryogenics (etc etc) are just ways of putting off the inevitable. (Assuming death is inevitable, but the ...
... You accept this theory? I thought current science holds the mind/body to be a single, dynamic, holistic system, layered with feedback loops. Ask Susan...