On Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 3:11:27 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > Le jeu. 26 sept. 2019 à 09:41, Philip Thrift <[email protected]> a > écrit : > >> >> >> I have one question (for Carroll or Zurek): >> >> Suppose world W branches *(in reality, not in "bookkeeping")* to worlds >> W0 and W1. >> >> If reality is pure information (basically purely mathematical bits of 0s >> and 1s), then that sort of "production" seems OK. >> >> But what if W is (or contains) matter. Based on matter contents of W, W0, >> and W1: >> >> *If the matter contents of W0 plus W1 combined is greater than the matter >> content of W,* >> *how was the extra matter "produced"?* >> > > If an infinity of indicernable universes already exist at the start and > are only differentiating/diverging (instead of splitting), then no matter > is created, all of it was already there. > > Quentin > > >> >> That's one answer to the question. (Is that the answer in Carroll's book?)
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