Dear Jason,
what William wrote is "the best" we, humans in 2007AD can find out for the subject matter. Before 1922 (Hubble's redshift) of course "the best" was different. Before...and so on. Considering "the best" of 2325AD...???
Your applause is similarly dated.
Is Mother Nature (or call her as you wish) really restricted to our today's speculations?
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BTW I wanted to know more about ASSA-RSSA and Googled it, when from the American Steam Ship Association everything came up in 3,700,000+ entries, Wikipedia finally advised me to the old archive 'eskimo' of this list with Wei Dai, H. Finley, et al. posts. Since I browse the list for more than a decade, it must have been in posts too technical for me. Do you know about a 'simple' yet informative source? I find the idea (maybe) useful now for my speculations about the 'self' ('I'?), separable in the total interefficient world as grouping for more relevantly interrelated networks to be considered as self-referential?
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I am not for a linear multiplication of our one-type universe as 'all possible' variations (as beyond even what we can think about today). I enjoy your input and the replies even if I do not agree with the model-position of the reigning physical sciences in spite of the fantastic results it produced as compared to the tools and housing of birds and beaver.
JohnMikes
"The caveman said: the best ever technical advancement in our weaponry is the hand-ax. ATOMIC BOMB IS A HOAX." - j
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From: Jason
To: Everything List
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds
William wrote:
> A simple way of picturing this, would be that at the big bang; the
> universe is 1 piece of paper, and from then on, every second, the
> piece(s) of paper is cut in half; giving 1, 2, 4, 8, ... universes. The
> total area of paper remains the same and all the pieces get smaller all
> the time, this means that the chance of being in a particular universe
> as the universe splitting progresses, even decreases :).
I consider this a very insightful way of looking at it. Starting with
the universe's intitial conditions defined to have probability 1, every
branched history that follows will occur with some fractional
probability, and the sum of all the histories in any single point of
time will all have equal probabilities. In effect every point of time
would be equally weighted statistically.
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