Re: Time, Causality and all that

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:53:32 -0700

Bruno Marchal wrote:
> Le 21-oct.-06, à 21:52, Charles Goodwin a écrit :
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> > [mailto:Fabric-of-Reality.domain.name.hidden] On Behalf Of Peter D
> > Jones
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> >> The problem is not that there are no such resemblances in a
> >> Multiverse, it is that ther are far too many. How does one
> >> distinguishing "real" ones from "coincidental" ones. How does a Harry
> >> Potter film differ from a documentary?
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> > The only way I know of that the MWI distinguishes these is that the
> > "measure" of the "real ones" is Vastly larger than the "measure" of the
> > rest. But that is just restating things.
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> Except, I would say that QM-without-collapse + decoherence theory
> explains the measure of the real one is vaster than the measure of the
> Harry-Potter (HP) stories, and, as DD said himself, why the probability
> to remains in a Harry Potter story is negligible.

In Barbour-style theories, every Now (3D configuration of matter) is
exemplified exactly once.

> In a a-la-Feynman nutshell: QM entails a phase randomization making the
> HP story amplitude of probabilities self-destroying.

That's multiversal, not omniversal.


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