From: WillBBlake@a... Date: Sun Feb 1, 2004 4:26 am ... If I understand you correctly, your difficulty is essentially the problem of the preferred basis in...
In a message dated 01/02/04 13:06:54 GMT Standard Time, ... I think that one of the problems with the FoR version of MWI (I think there may be others) is...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 1, 2004 4:19 pm
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I think DD is fully appreciative of the issues you raise. If you look in the archives at message 4033, you will see that DD wrote: "'Universe' and 'particle'...
In a message dated 02/02/04 02:05:03 GMT Standard Time, ... Brian Thanks for taking the trouble to find those extracts; they were interesting and illuminating....
WillBBlake@...
Feb 2, 2004 1:19 pm
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... I agree with Ronald. Kitaev's work is a sort of applied knot theory to a form of quantum computing called topological computing. Its advantage resides in...
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Feb 2, 2004 1:20 pm
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... From: <WillBBlake@...> ... wave ... between ... what's ... of MWI ... why ... different ... I *think* the FoR approach is that the quantum system...
As DD pointed out, it is convenient to speak of universes interfering because it provides a very accurate, though ultimately approximate, description of...
For this Year's edge question, Hameroff's Law is: ["The sub-conscious mind is to consciousness what the quantum world is to the classical world. The vast...
In a message dated 03/02/04 00:44:26 GMT Standard Time, charles@... ... You're quite right, this is FoR's approach. To recap, the original version of ...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 3, 2004 1:09 pm
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In a message dated 03/02/04 13:09:50 GMT Standard Time, ... I think there's rather more to the shortcomings of FoR's elaboration of MWI than you say. I think...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 3, 2004 1:37 pm
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... It is an explanation that does not capture absolutely every feature of the multiverse, but it was never intended to do that, simply to refute the theory...
... But suppose the Riemann Hypothesis is true but not provable; then 10 billion years from now our descendents will still be looking, unsuccessfully, for a ...
egg plant
eggplant107@...
Feb 4, 2004 12:19 am
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... I'm not sure whose version of MWI you consider the "original" one. Do you have a reference? All the current references I know of (admittedly IANAP) treat...
... My point is that FoR's multiverse is not a feature of the original MWI, not whether or not FoR describes the multiverse accurately. FoR's addition of the ...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 4, 2004 12:25 am
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... Have you looked at QCL? http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html I have a kind of recent group for discussion about quantum computing. Maybe your questions...
... From: <WillBBlake@...> ... hypothesis ... This is one point I'm not very clear about. What does the original MWI do instead of describing reality as a...
... I reflect that some exceptional people, autistics in particular, can handle large primes easily. A Darwinian argument from the theory of sexual selection...
Richard Lubbock
rlubbock@...
Feb 4, 2004 1:37 pm
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... Just a point of clarification: What do you mean by the original MWI? The term "many worlds" was not Everett's. Given that it sometimes seems as though...
... Sorry, no particular references. Just general reading which I did quite a while ago, together with having recently re-read FoR, having been impressed the ...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 4, 2004 4:53 pm
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I read a lot of passages like this ... macroscopic object. on this list. The writers are using a shorthand, apparently, since functions exist Platonically at...
Barry Brent
barrybrent@...
Feb 5, 2004 1:25 am
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In a message dated 04/02/04 13:39:57 GMT Standard Time, charles@... ... To be honest I'm relying on my memory for the "original" MWI interpretation. I...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 5, 2004 1:26 am
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... Brian, the quote is, as you say, interesting and relevant to various aspects of the discussion. I first responded to a post from Charles Halswell which ...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 5, 2004 1:27 am
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... From: <WillBBlake@...> ... possible ... which ... time. ... Not to mention impossible, once the relevant parts of the whole structure have decohered......
For this Year's edge question, Hameroff's Law is: "The sub-conscious mind is to consciousness what the quantum world is to the classical world." I agree that...
uv
uv@...
Feb 6, 2004 12:59 am
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As far as I understand Roger Penrose's view of the interpretation of QM, he thinks that the wave function objectively exists within our universe and, on ...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 6, 2004 12:59 am
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... There are more male autistic people than female, by a fairly large number. I forget the ratio, but it's on the order of 2-to-1. Most autistic people aren't...
In a message dated 05/02/04 05:03:54 GMT Standard Time, charles@... ... I don't think I agree this is at all impossible, quite the opposite, because, ...
WillBBlake@...
Feb 6, 2004 1:02 am
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... I don't think so. Riemann Hypothesis (RH) is fruitful (unlike the ex-conjecture "fermat"), The RH has a lot of non trivial consequences including the case...
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Feb 6, 2004 1:02 am
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I've heard that autistics can have exceptional math abilities, though I'm unaware of the cause or link with autisim, but I didn't know that they could factor...
I assume the quote below is a reply to my question yesterday ... As I pointed out, a function has at best a Platonic existence, at least, if we are talking...
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