You're welcome, Lee.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Corbin"
To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
Subject: RE: Plaga
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:04:19 -0700
>
> I could not find who suggested Plaga's paper recently, but
> thanks to whoever it was. Whether Plaga is right or wrong,
> his introductory remarks and general presentation are
> simply superb.
>
> There is even the very noteworthy (or humorous, I can't decide)
> sentence which reads "Independent of what one thinks about the
> MWI a priori, this is also a very systematic way to make
> experimental progress in the question of the interpretation
> of QM, because in the MWI the predictions for any conceivable
> experiment are free from philosophical subtleties...(!)"
>
> Lee
>
> P.S. Thanks also to Saibal:
>
> > Plaga's paper has been published:
>
> > "Proposal for an experimental test of the
> > many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
>
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/9510/9510007.pdf
>
>
> Found.Phys. 27 (1997) 559
>
> arXiv: quant-ph/9510007
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "Hal Finney" [mailto:hal.domain.name.hidden]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:51 PM
> > To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> > Subject: Re: Plaga
> >
> > We discussed Plaga's paper back in June, 2002. I reported some skeptical
> > analysis of the paper by John Baez of sci.physics fame, at
> > http://www.escribe.com/science/theory/m3686.html . I also gave some
> > reasons of my own why arbitrary inter-universe quantum communication
> > should be impossible.
> >
> > Hal Finney
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