... In what way does the MWI consider the wave function a statistical gimmick - or did you mean that the other way around (i.e. rather hard to ignore the MWI...
... gimmick - or did you mean that the other way around (i.e. rather ... I've encounter quantum mechanics tutors written by university professors stating that...
... Mules are the offspring of horses and donkeys and to understand why they are inertile you must first understand a little about sexual reproduction. ...
Mules are crosses between two groups of animals which are almost but not quite different species (horses and donkeys I believe). Species form gradually when...
It is my understanding that female mules have been known on occasion to have foaled. What is the reason for this aberration, please? Thank you. Bob Schott ......
... No, it is not evidence against evolution. The specific reason may or may not be of interest, but such phenomena are not logically inconsistent with...
http://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0501010 A Finslerian version of 't Hooft Deterministic Quantum Models Authors: Ricardo Gallego Comments: 11 pages; no figures ...
... I don't think this would affect the MWI at all. The same "split" would happen in other universes. Very interesting question, of course. Since lower ...
Dear Saibal, I read the paper quickly and noticed that very little attention was given to the question of the effects of Plank scale phenomenology (Psp), most...
... to have ... Well, I haven't seen such reports and so I can't come to much of a decision about their truth or lack thereof. However, I suppose that it is...
... One can split a wavefunction apparently, but certainly not a point particle. Twas supposed to be the wavefunction OF the point particle, but now there's...
Thank you for the response. Here is verification from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2290491.stm Indeed, it is a very rare event. The...
Well, the (in)ability to remain fertile into a second generation pretty well defines "species", doesn't it . . . but, of course, it's never quite so either/or...
... But why is evolution working on creating seperate species and preventing "mix up"? Why aren't there more "in-bettween" species? Why as animals get larger...
... It's not working to do that, it is simply something that happens as a matter of course as two populations of the same species adapt to different niches....
Evolution does not 'work' at anything. What happens, happens. A lot of people seem to think that evolution has a purpose, that it is aiming for a better...
Hi Stephen, I will take a look at those refs. The models proposed by 't Hooft are rather general. All you need is determinism with information loss. How you ...
10012
Barry Brent
barrybrent@...
Jan 11, 2005 1:44 am
Question from a non-physicist: I have a general idea how MWI purports to resolve the causality paradox in the Copenhagen interpetation in the case of...
DD talks about shadow photons in the FOR, as having no intrinsic differences from the tangible ones (page44 of the FOR), except that they cannot be detected by...
Dear Saibal, The problem with that is that determinism is incompatible with information loss (especially if we assume the holographic principle)! Not only is...
... Suppose we have two atoms, Atom A and Atom B. In a particular universe in which we are interested Atom A has an electron on its second lowest energy level,...
10016
Henry Sturman
henry@...
Jan 11, 2005 1:33 pm
... This does not seem correct to me. I can think of the following counter example. Person A passes a note to B, and B deterministically creates a note based...
10017
Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Jan 12, 2005 1:10 am
... OK. But it is still irreversible, and thus contrary to both classical physics, and quantum physics. I guess that was Stephen Paul King thought about. And ...
10018
Barry Brent
barrybrent@...
Jan 12, 2005 1:12 am
Alan, thanks for the answer. I still have some questions--perhaps based on a too-simple mental picture of the passage-between-shells process. The electron's...
What you are not considering is that you are working with human beings, which are very complex things, and at least the information of A's note is in B's brain...
... The photon emissions and the electron descending take place at the same time. That is, something like this happens A2nophoton(0) --> a(t)*A2nophoton +...
Dear Eric, That is exactly the point was was trying to make. Nature can not be considered to be selective in the way that Henry proposes, if only because such...
Dear Bruno, Yes, it is well known that reversibility depends on one-to-one transforms. On the other hand, some work has been done that seems to strongly...
10023
Henry Sturman
henry@...
Jan 12, 2005 1:08 pm
Maybe we're talking about two different things. I was talking about the fact that there is no fundamental or mathematical reason for determinism to be...
