Well, as long as you brought personality into your observations, Lubos Motl is not a Left schmuck like Carroll or Larry Krauss. having said this, Caroll may have indeed come up with a fix for observers in the Everett MWI interpretation of quantum mechanics. Motl the Czech, is a physicist that needs more credit not criticism. Carroll does have the smugness factor going on, and whatever his politics, I find this disagreeable myself. I will, emotionally, side with Maimon on this, simply because I don't fully trust Carroll, in the same sense that you are suspicious of Lubos Motl. But, on all of this-you could be well-right.
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sent: Wed, Mar 11, 2015 9:08 pm Subject: Carroll and Motul An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and providing a solution to the Boltzmann brain problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFy6Ben0Ho Note that toward the end he seems to require a conscious observer to bottom out the epistemology, i.e. to have a measurement actually made. Be sure to listen to the Q&A too. Coincidentally, I came across Lubos Motul's discussion of MWI in which he has an extended argument with Ron Maimon. I don't like Lubos's politics or his style or argument which is arrogant and bombastic. In this case he is being very critical of Sean Carroll whom is a very nice guy and I do like - but I think Lubos makes some fair points. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
