perhaps 1980 still exists - but only as a fragmented ‘state’ - where all the fragmented perspectives of everyone who lived then reside in a separated state of reality in each persons memory. A mosaic of time
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:09 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > On 8/8/2019 10:33 PM, smitra wrote: > > I remember the year 1980, but what I remember is due to brain > > processes that exist right now. I can only ever probe the present > > moment, there is no way to prove that 1980 physically exists or > > existed (whatever the past tense is supposed to mean). So, if 1980 > > exists (existed) it must be considered to be a parallel world where > > the people in our memory of that time really exist (existed). The time > > evolution operator from that time to the present can be expanded in a > > basis where complete sets of commuting local observables are diagonal. > > One of the simultaneous eigenstates is the present world we find > > ourselves in. So, if we assume that 1980 is indeed real and the > > present world which is one particular component of that same 1980 > > state written in a different basis, then it's plausible that all the > > other MWI parallel worlds of 2019 are equally real. > > Or to recap. There's a world which we believe is real because we > remember it and find consistent evidence of it today. Therefore we > should believe in the existence of worlds for which we have no evidence > or memories. > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/3e40cede-c108-402c-7d3f-cd25c8f8a29d%40verizon.net > . > -- Jennifer O'Bryon 70 North Main Street Bryant Pond, Maine 04219 207-418-2496 -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAAgt4%2BGrW-v%3DkXB-4Y8s-w4z-55WqJZEhyGxcrROn1w%2BKWJnLg%40mail.gmail.com.
