Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi John: At 06:12 PM 12/26/2004, you wrote: Dear Hal, is there some draft seeable on the web? Not yet. If the idea still looks good at the end of this thread I intend to post something on my web page with visual aids etc. I thought I am comfortable with your terminology (whether I understand it

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread John M
Dear Hal, is there some draft seeable on the web? I thought I am comfortable with your terminology (whether I understand it or not) but now I wonder: Is Everything part of All, or All part of Everything? Then again it should be that Nothing is part of Everything, maybe not necessarily of All. You c

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Hal Ruhl
Hi Stephen: Since the Nothing has no information by definition and the boundary between them - the Everything - has no potential to divide further [i.e. no information] then the All must have no information if the system has no information. I do not think the latter part is controversial. For

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Hal, About this "zero information" feature, could it be due to a strict communitivity between any given "subset" of the All/Nothing? I ask this because it seems to me that the "information content" of any string follows from the existence of a difference between one ordering of the "bits

Re: An All/Nothing multiverse model

2004-12-26 Thread Hal Ruhl
Below is a background for my model and a rewrite of the original post. My concerns with a TOE which I am trying to resolve are: I would like to see the theory have a zero information content. I would like an origin for what we perceive as a changing reality - a dynamic. Postulating the existence of