For once I agree with Jacques. I doubt QS would ever be a means of
implementing time travel. The most likely scenario at this point is
exploiting the strange space-times around superdense objects, such as
Tipler's cylinder. Obviously that technology is way beyond us now, if
not outrightly possible.
Cheers
>
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 GSLevy.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> > Build a conditional suicide machine that instantly kills the user unless a
> > particular set of conditions in the environment is satisfied. With
> > "conventional" quantum suicide these conditions could be a winning lottery
> > ticket for example. With time travel suicide, these conditions would be that
> > prespecified factors in the environment should match the past to which we
> > would like to travel to.
>
> This shit's sounding sillier by the second.
> I'll note, once again, that "quantum suicide" does not *move* you
> to the surviving branches. Those branches would have existed anyway. All
> it does is kill off what would have been perfectly acceptable copies of
> you.
> Suppose there are two guys, one happy and one medium. All QS is
> is killing off the medium guy so everyone (surviving) can be happy.
>
> As for regular time travel, I doubt it's possible. Certainly, if
> a wormhole could exist, it would be submicroscopic. I'll have to wait for
> quantum gravity to know for sure, but I doubt even that's possible.
>
> - - - - - - -
> Jacques Mallah (jqm1584.domain.name.hidden)
> Physicist / Many Worlder / Devil's Advocate
> "I know what no one else knows" - 'Runaway Train', Soul Asylum
> My URL: http://pages.nyu.edu/~jqm1584/
>
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