On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 06:27:16PM -0700, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: > > When I wrote "lowest" I was assuming the context of MWI...not a single > universe. The Bekenstein bound implies that the Hubble volume has an upper > bound for information capacity of it's surface area in Planck units. This > number is around 2.4e106. So as I read Zurek, he thinks this provides a kind > of probability cutoff and branches less probable than 0.4e-106 have zero > probability. And, more to the point, in the limit of large N, where N is the > number of degrees of freedom in the environment the off diagonal terms of the > reduced density matrix go to zero; but this cutoff makes them exactly zero for > N>2.41e106. I haven't figured out many branchings it would take to reach this > number, but with some 1e98 particles it wouldn't take very many. > > Brent
Its an interesting idea, and a plausible mechanism for denying the "no cul-de-sac conjecture" and quantum immortality. However, I do have to wonder the significance of a 2.4x10^106 planck distance quare hubble volume. This surely is a geographical factoid rather than of fundamental significance. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/20190929221524.GC31717%40zen.
