... calculating ... this ... use ... RA ****************** Not only "just as good", but identical. Dirac's approach makes this particularly clear -- for...
... 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...
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...
Bill Taylor
W.Taylor@...
Mar 3, 2004 1:00 pm
9040
... OK. ... Most "godelian" systems (that is sufficiently rich axiomatic or formal system) do prove Godel's second incompleteness theorem. That is such system...
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Mar 3, 2004 1:00 pm
9041
... 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...
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Mar 3, 2004 1:02 pm
9042
"A Moore" <ontheoldgumtree@...> said ... rsmith658@... added ... I am sure you could very reasonably take that view. It probably depends on...
uv
uv@...
Mar 3, 2004 1:02 pm
9043
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,...
Roger Davies
roger.davies@...
Mar 3, 2004 1:03 pm
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... One problem with the splitting approach is conservation. A continuum of preexisting universes which gradually become different from each other by...
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....
... From: "Gary Oberbrunner" <garyo@...> ... clear. Of course any analogy with physical objects spliiting makes one think that the object (the rubber...
... as ... (RA) Indeed he does. Among other things, he discusses the relationships between state vectors and wave functions -- the argument I presented is...
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...
Stephen Paul King
stephenk1@...
Mar 5, 2004 1:06 am
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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 ...
Stephen Paul King
stephenk1@...
Mar 5, 2004 1:07 am
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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: ...
... Which aspect? We were just talking about Godel's incompleteness theorem (which btw concerns more general things than just consistent machine ) ... I don't...
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Mar 6, 2004 3:19 am
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Hallo Peeps :-) The discussion of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem has become rather technical and repetitive, any further posts on this topic will be deleted...
... single ... how can ... correlations? This is not a problem if the collapse mechanism itself is nonlocal. ... notion of ... which the ... into ... the...
Matt
matt.leifer@...
Mar 9, 2004 1:12 am
9055
... [...] I have considered this possibligy as well. See section 9 in my article: http://henrysturman.com/english/articles/EPR.php#speculations [Non-text...
Henry Sturman
henry@...
Mar 9, 2004 1:15 pm
9056
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...
Scientist/Engineers use a tool called least-squares curve fitting. This tool includes many functions but I will focus on polynomials for this discussion....
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...
... Scientists don't just fit polynomials, we fit exponentials too. But data by themselves do not and cannot provide good theories. Instead observations ...
The book "Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology": ...
Henry Sturman
henry@...
Mar 13, 2004 4:56 pm
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John Wettersten has intensively researched the relationship between Popper, Buhler, Kulpe and Selz. ...
Rafe Champion
rchamp@...
Mar 14, 2004 1:19 am
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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...
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)...
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....
DJ White
dj@...
Mar 23, 2004 12:14 am
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... From: "Doug Donaghue at 054" <DDonaghue@... ... Actually that isn't the word I was thinking of. Some flavours of string theory are known as...