Higgo, James, <james.higgo.domain.name.hidden>, writes:
> There are no 'backwards in time regions' - the entire universe is as much
> backward in time as it is forward in time. You really need to read Huw
> Price. And Deutsch, to understand that what we perceive as the flow of
> time is just one of many relationships between different universes.
I have read Deutsch, and I will look at Huw Price's book. However I must
say after reading his web page at
http://plato.stanford.edu/price/TAAP.html
that I was not happy to read:
: But if we are to avoid the double standard fallacy, we need to consider
: time symmetrically, and take seriously the possibility that the arrow
: of time may reverse when the universe recollapses into a "big crunch."
When I know that someone is leading up to an absurd conclusion like
this one, it is hard for me to read him with an open mind.
I still don't see how the Anthropic Principle forbids universes with a
mixture of forwards- and backwards-time regions. As long as we evolve in
a forwards-time area we should be protected from backwards-time effects.
But once we look out into new regions we should expect to see some where
time is running backwards, if all that prevented it was the AP.
Hal
Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 10:01:10 PST