Re: The Meaning of Life

2007-01-21 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno, I read with joy your long and detailed 'teaching' reply (Hungarian slogan: like a mother to her imbecil child) and understood a lot (or so I think). I am not entusiastic about a sign-language (gesticulated or written) instead of words, because I did not familiarize myself into its 'unde

Re: ASSA and Many-Worlds

2007-01-21 Thread Jason
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > What about when multiple equally valid OM's exist? I don't agree that they > are all perceived. > If I am to be duplicated and one of the copies tortured, I am worried, > because this is subjectively > equivalent to expecting torture with 1/2 probability. Post-dupli

RE: Blackholes imply 'C' is violated/invalidated.

2007-01-21 Thread Jesse Mazer
The speed of light is only C "locally" in general relativity. The equivalence principle says that local observations of a freely-falling observer in a gravitational field will look just like local observations of an inertial observer in the flat spacetime of special relativity. "Local" means i