Hal Ruhl wrote:
>
>Hi Stephen:
>
>I took a look at Julian Barbour's "time capsules" and his Nows may be like
>my kernels but in my (2) the sequence of kernels is inconsistent with its
>past due to the "=>>" dynamic as I have indicated.
Barbour's idea is that there is no sequence to the time capsules at all,
they all exist independently in a timeless manner. Some time capsules may
contain records that appear more or less consistent with other time
capsules, and the number of other capsules which have records consistent
with a given capsule may have something to do with determining the
probability of that time capsule, but there is no objective truth about the
future or past of a given time capsule. Here's a good discussion of his
theory, I don't know if you already read this one or not:
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge60.html
He also wrote a book explaining his idea at greater length, called "The End
of Time":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195145925/103-7046420-2415059
Jesse
Received on Sun Jan 30 2005 - 18:49:15 PST