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6361 pourrientui Offline Send Email Dec 3, 2002
5:16 pm
Speaking of Feynman integrals... In his QED, Feynman uses "virtual photons" in his description of partical interactions. "Virtual" sounds familiar, yes? Has...
6362 Marchal Bruno
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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...
6363 alan_forrester2 Offline Send Email Dec 5, 2002
5:53 pm
... 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...
6364 Tony Hollick
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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...
6365 PaintedDevil@...
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Dec 6, 2002
4:29 pm
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 ...
6366 Doug Gill
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Dec 6, 2002
4:31 pm
... 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...
6367 Alan Forrester
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Dec 6, 2002
5:32 pm
... http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2000/teaching/resource/lessons/interact/2_exch.htm ... No. It is inappropriate to describe light going...
6368 Doug Gill
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Dec 8, 2002
7:11 pm
... From your statement, it appears to me that this multiverse Photon (responsible for the interference pattern) is considered a Universal Object that...
6369 Alan Forrester
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Dec 8, 2002
7:44 pm
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...
6370 june.shippey@... Send Email Dec 8, 2002
8:16 pm
... Oh so you can define what life is then? ;) Gordon....
6371 Woty Free
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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? ... ...
6372 Roger Davies
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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 ...
6373 vikee1@...
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Dec 10, 2002
4:22 pm
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...
6374 Woty Free
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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? ...
6375 Tony Hollick
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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...
6376 Gary Oberbrunner
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Dec 10, 2002
4:24 pm
... 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....
6377 pourrientui <Pourrien...
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Dec 10, 2002
4:25 pm
... "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...
6378 PaintedDevil@...
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Dec 10, 2002
5:18 pm
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...
6379 David Deutsch
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Dec 10, 2002
6:16 pm
... 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 ...
6380 Sarah Lawrence
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Dec 10, 2002
8:51 pm
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...
6381 Stephen Paul King
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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...
6382 corqspy Offline Send Email Dec 11, 2002
1:25 pm
Suppose... Nothing, nothingness, and it's associates, (meaning death, etc.) is the original "door to elsewhere?" Certainly not an original thought and I dunno...
6383 Robert Harrigan
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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...
6384 Tony Hollick
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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...
6385 Tony Hollick
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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 ...
6386 Tony Hollick
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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? ......
6387 DJ White
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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...
6388 vikee1@...
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Dec 11, 2002
1:31 pm
... 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...
6389 PaintedDevil@...
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Dec 11, 2002
1:31 pm
... 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 ...
6390 pourrientui <Pourrien...
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Dec 11, 2002
1:32 pm
... 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...
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