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9037 ormand2000 Offline Send Email Mar 3, 2004
12:58 pm
... calculating ... this ... use ... RA ****************** Not only "just as good", but identical. Dirac's approach makes this particularly clear -- for...
9038 Charles Goodwin
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Mar 3, 2004
12:59 pm
... Actually there are also various different models of space time floating around, all of which can be used to calculate what massive objects will do (but...
9039 Bill Taylor
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Mar 3, 2004
1:00 pm
Many thanks for all the followups on this topic. -> The difficulty that I have is in the notion of a prior measure. The chief difficulty seems to me to be...
9040 Bruno Marchal
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Mar 3, 2004
1:00 pm
... OK. ... Most "godelian" systems (that is sufficiently rich axiomatic or formal system) do prove Godel's second incompleteness theorem. That is such system...
9041 Bruno Marchal
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Mar 3, 2004
1:02 pm
... You should say: unprovable ... *by the system in question* Let us call S the system in question (S for some consistent System). Godel's proof entails that...
9042 uv
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Mar 3, 2004
1:02 pm
"A Moore" <ontheoldgumtree@...> said ... rsmith658@... added ... I am sure you could very reasonably take that view. It probably depends on...
9043 Roger Davies
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Mar 3, 2004
1:03 pm
Ah the joy of fractals! I have spent many happy hours, and some perturbed ones, watching whirlpools in my local river in Wales. Tiny spin-off whirlpools,...
9044 Gary Oberbrunner
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Mar 3, 2004
2:40 pm
... One problem with the splitting approach is conservation. A continuum of preexisting universes which gradually become different from each other by...
9045 scerir Offline Send Email Mar 4, 2004
12:52 am
From: "ormand2000" ... Does Dirac use the term "wave function" in his book? ... It seems interesting (at least to me) that wfs are not dimensionless. s....
9046 Charles Goodwin
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Mar 4, 2004
12:53 am
... From: "Gary Oberbrunner" <garyo@...> ... clear. Of course any analogy with physical objects spliiting makes one think that the object (the rubber...
9047 Charles Goodwin
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Mar 4, 2004
12:53 am
... From: "Bill Taylor" <W.Taylor@...> ... AFAIK fungible (in QM) means "in the same quantum state" - 2 particles in the same quantum state...
9048 ormand2000 Offline Send Email Mar 5, 2004
1:03 am
... as ... (RA) Indeed he does. Among other things, he discusses the relationships between state vectors and wave functions -- the argument I presented is...
9049 Stephen Paul King
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Mar 5, 2004
1:06 am
Dear Andrew, What you are considering is very similar to something that I am researching and would like to hear more about your idea. In particular how do you...
9050 Stephen Paul King
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Mar 5, 2004
1:07 am
Dear Bruno, While I am VERY impressed by your reasoning, I must insist that it is necessary to make this aspect of COMP falsifiable. How is it decided ...
9051 Alan Forrester
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Mar 6, 2004
3:19 am
One of the neat things you can do in QM becuase of parallel universes is measure something and not measure it at the same time: ...
9052 Bruno Marchal
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Mar 6, 2004
3:19 am
... Which aspect? We were just talking about Godel's incompleteness theorem (which btw concerns more general things than just consistent machine ) ... I don't...
9053 alan_forrester2 Offline Send Email Mar 6, 2004
3:22 am
Hallo Peeps :-) The discussion of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem has become rather technical and repetitive, any further posts on this topic will be deleted...
9054 Matt
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Mar 9, 2004
1:12 am
... single ... how can ... correlations? This is not a problem if the collapse mechanism itself is nonlocal. ... notion of ... which the ... into ... the...
9055 Henry Sturman
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Mar 9, 2004
1:15 pm
... [...] I have considered this possibligy as well. See section 9 in my article: http://henrysturman.com/english/articles/EPR.php#speculations [Non-text...
9056 Charles Goodwin
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Mar 11, 2004
1:27 am
I would like to know something about the bulk properties of strange quark matter. Can anyone point me to a suitable web site? Examples would be - can you get...
9057 sburns808 Offline Send Email Mar 12, 2004
1:24 am
Scientist/Engineers use a tool called least-squares curve fitting. This tool includes many functions but I will focus on polynomials for this discussion....
9058 sburns808 Offline Send Email Mar 12, 2004
1:27 am
If Von Neumann is correct that consciousness plays a part in state vector collapse, then consciousness/reality is a closed loop control system feeding each...
9059 Alan Forrester
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Mar 12, 2004
2:29 am
... Scientists don't just fit polynomials, we fit exponentials too. But data by themselves do not and cannot provide good theories. Instead observations ...
9060 Henry Sturman
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Mar 13, 2004
4:56 pm
The book "Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology": ...
9061 Rafe Champion
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Mar 14, 2004
1:19 am
John Wettersten has intensively researched the relationship between Popper, Buhler, Kulpe and Selz. ...
9062 Mindway69@...
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Mar 19, 2004
1:27 pm
I am a relatively "new" student in theoretical physics and new to this group as well. I am sure most discussion within this group will likely exceed my...
9063 Charles Goodwin
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Mar 20, 2004
12:18 am
From: <Mindway69@...> ... Magazine ... I believe this is an outgrowth of string theory. It has a Greek name which I can't remember (eupyrotic or something)...
9064 Doug Donaghue at 054
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Mar 23, 2004
12:13 am
... "Heterotic" Doug...
9065 DJ White
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Mar 23, 2004
12:14 am
Hi there. I read FOR some years ago, and recently bought a copy and am rereading it; still delightful. Here's a question perhaps someone would help me with....
9066 Charles Goodwin
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Mar 23, 2004
12:52 pm
... From: "Doug Donaghue at 054" <DDonaghue@... ... Actually that isn't the word I was thinking of. Some flavours of string theory are known as...
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