Re: Black Holes and Gravity Carrier

2004-02-27 Thread Ron McFarland
On 27 Feb 2004 at 16:16, John M wrote: > Thanks Ron, for the teaching in particular particles. Allow me to > interspace some naive remarks into your text John Mine be not teachings, but only musings. Your thoughts impress me as fully 180 to those musings and I am not so sure that either of our mus

Re: Tegmark is too "physics-centric"

2004-02-27 Thread Russell Standish
I deliberately leave vague what is in the theory of the mind, but simply assume a small number of things about consciousness: 1) That there is a linear dimension called (psycholgical) time, in which the conscious mind find itself embedded 2) The observations are a form of a projection from the se

Re: Black Holes and Gravity Carrier

2004-02-27 Thread John M
Thanks Ron, for the teaching in particular particles. Allow me to interspace some naive remarks into your text John - Original Message - From: Ron McFarland To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Black Holes and Gravity Car

Re: Black Holes and Gravity Carrier

2004-02-27 Thread Ron McFarland
On 26 Feb 2004 at 11:37, John M wrote: > Ron: > do you believe there are non-virtual gravitons? > John Mikes Greetings, John. Over the decades I've waffled a lot on that very question. I currently do not believe that any type of gravity force carrier exists, and it is an attempt to explain the

NYTimes.com Article: New Data on 2 Doomsday Ideas, Big Rip vs. Big Crunch

2004-02-27 Thread jackogreen
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Re: Tegmark is too "physics-centric"

2004-02-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 09:19 25/02/04 +1100, Russell Standish wrote: I think that "psychological time" fits the bill. The observer needs a a temporal dimension in which to appreciate differences between states. OK. That move makes coherent your attempt to derive physics, and makes it even compatible with the sort of a