Stathis, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> Imagine the sequence: >> >> Scan - Annihilate - Signal - Reconstitute
> The no-cul-de-sac hypothesis is false if you allow that there is some > means of destroying all copies in the multiverse. But there is > probably no such means, no matter how advanced the aliens. Assuming COMP you are probably right, but with standard MWI I'm with Jonathan - it suffices that the aliens would make sure that no decoherent branch contains a successor macrostate; considering that the reconstitution machine and the incoming beam are (localized) macrostates, this seems plausible. Maybe we would have to modify the scenario a bit (not 100 000 lightyears distance, which would open up possibilites for very different histories) but the minimal distance to ensure that annihilation has finished before reconstitution "would" begin (without tampering). Cheers, Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
