Djinni vs. White Rabbit

2004-08-19 Thread Jeff Bone
At some point in the past various of us have argued about whether the simulation argument and / or the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics implies an every possible world (EPW) interpretation, i.e. one in which highly improbable events, laws of physics, etc. obtain. Stumbled

Re: Djinni vs. White Rabbit

2004-08-19 Thread Hal Finney
I'll have to look more closely at those papers, but I have a couple of quick comments. Jeff Bone, [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Stumbled across an interesting if tangential paper that has something to say about this. First some terminology: let's call events that are highly improbable white

Anthropic constraints on dark matter?

2004-08-19 Thread Saibal Mitra
The properties of ordinary matterare strongly constrained by the anthropic principle. In soome cases you can even calculate non trivial things. E.g. the anthropic reasoning was used by Hoyle to prove the existence of an energy level of the carbon-12 nucleus. Dark matter seems to be much