Hi Norman,
Thanks for the kudos. I have to agree with you that
Tegmark is not very convincing in his move to center his
multiverse construction on inflation. Even if inflation has
to be a quantum process I don't see the advantage
of pinning it to a ManyWorld scenario since it is unlikely
there were any observers there to split universes (;-).
But he is fun to read and the pictures are always great!
Godfrey Kurtz
(New Brunswick, NJ)
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Samish <ncsamish.domain.name.hidden>
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Sent: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:19:24 -0700
Subject: Re: How did it all begin?
Hi Godfrey,
Thanks for the ID. Now I know that "Godfrey" is one of the
mind-stretchers on this list.
I hope that Saibal will eventually tell us the reason(s) for
"Dishonorable Mention."
I read Tegmark's paper too, where he seems to attribute the
beginning of
"It" to Inflation. But he didn't appear to address how, or why,
Inflation
got started. I guess his definition of "It" ends with our Big Bang.
Thinking of Big Bangs, or anything else, as a logical process that
occurs without causality isn't something I'm able to do. But I'll keep
reading!
Norman
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: How did it all begin?
Hi Saibal, Norman
I did not mean to intervene but so that my name is not
"called in vain" (:-) I would like to mention that, yes, I read
Tegmark's paper and enjoyed it much though I could not
help but notice that, though he promises, he never gets
to Level IV (my favorite) on this paper, to my regret.
I don't think that was the reason for the dishonorable mention,
though! I surely wasn't heard about it..
As to whom am I? Still trying to find out...
Regards,
Godfrey Kurtz
(New Brunswick, NJ)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Samish <ncsamish.domain.name.hidden>
To: Saibal Mitra <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
Cc: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
Sent: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:57:54 -0700
Subject: Re: How did it all begin?
This is a teaser. Why did Tegmark's paper receive Dishonorable Mention?
Who
is Godfrey?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Saibal Mitra" <smitra.domain.name.hidden>
To: "everything" <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:14 AM
Subject: How did it all begin?
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508429
Tegmark's essay was not well received (perhaps Godfrey didn't like it?
:-) )
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