Re: Distributive Law in QM

> It is also inherently dualist, since there is an unspoken assumption > that only one of the copies on the different branches is really you.* > *Now Bruce Kellett sounds like Bruno Marchal and Bruno Marchal never made one bit of sense to John Clark. It's RIDICULOUS to claim only

Re: Distributive Law in QM

On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:03 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *>> All Many Worlds says is that everything always obeys Schrodinger's Wave >> Equation, it never collapses,* > > > * > That's right. It never says where the Born rule comes from. * > *1) Many worlds is the only quantum interpretation that even

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Re: Distributive Law in QM

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 9:19 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: *> But when we ask what this means physically we are faced with a problem > the distributive law applied to the tensor product of the initial > superposition and the environment means that the original environment must > be duplicated before any

Re: Maxwell's Equations (ME)

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 11:14 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> A rank 1 Tensor (a.k.a. * *a vector) is not necessarily invariant under > changes in the coordinate system, instead it transforms in a **specific, > consistent way**. For example angular momentum is not invariant under > coordinate* *transl

Re: Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 7:23 AM PGC wrote: *> I don't care what my statements sound like. It's about the argument. I'm > not making statements like "superintelligence is around the corner",* *I would maintain it's physically impossible to overhyped the importance of artificial intelligence. *

Re: Maxwell's Equations (ME)

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 3:14 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> there's a subtle but important difference between coordinate > transformations, and frame of reference transformations* *That's very true. A rank 1 Tensor (a.k.a. * *a vector) is not necessarily invariant under changes in the coordinate sy

Re: Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 7:54 AM PGC wrote: *> Despite marketing efforts hyping superintelligence around the corner, > advanced reasoning abilities etc. I don't see much more than folks beating > disingenuous benchmarks by modifying training sets, memory, and all manner > of parameters, specific t

AlphaChip: computers designing computers

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Re: Maxwell's Equations (ME)

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 2:07 PM Alan Grayson wrote: * >> Galilean relativity is a very good approximation of reality as long as > the speeds don't become too high, and it would also be completely invariant > under coordinate transformation IF Galileo's assumptions were correct; > namely that ther

Re: Maxwell's Equations (ME)

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 8:41 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> But ME are written in tensor form. * > *Yes. * *> Doesn't that mean the equations are invariant under coordinate > transformations?* > *Yes.* *>If so, shouldn't ME be invariant under the Galilean transformation, which > is a coordinate tr

Re: Maxwell's Equations (ME)

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 6:57 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> Yes and that's why Maxwell's Equations needed no modification to be > consistent with Special Relativity or General Relativity, although they are > inconsistent with Quantum Mechanics. Maxwell's theory predicted what the > speed of light wou

Re: Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 12:19 AM Brent Meeker wrote: * >> Albert Einstein went from understanding precisely nothing in 1879 to >> being the first man to understand General Relativity in 1915, and you knew >> that the human genome only contains 750 megs of information, and yet that >> is enough in

Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype

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Re: Quantum Computing: Between Hope and Hype

nd decoherence could be fundamental barriers, not just engineering > challenges to be overcome with incremental improvements. > > On Friday, September 27, 2024 at 6:36:21 PM UTC+2 John Clark wrote: > >> *It looks like conventional Superintelligence is not the only revolution >>

By 2030 Japan will have a supercomputer 1,000 times faster than any in the world today

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Re: Maxwell's Equations (ME)

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 6:22 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Maxwell's Equations are written in vector form, and vectors are tensors, > and tensors are invariant under change of coordinates. It is known that ME > are invariant under the Lorentz transformation, and predict that EM waves > travel at the

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 1:08 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> I think our bubble, both parts, are finite, but the substratum from > whence it originated, is likely infinite, uncreated, and eternal. AG* *If you believe an infinite number of years is possible why do you believe an infinite number of lig

The Intelligence Age

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Re: Quantum Foam

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 3:51 PM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *@John. Not necessarily. Because you have consciousness.* *What makes you think I'm conscious? Do you have any reason for believing you are not the only conscious being in the universe

Re: Quantum Foam

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> There is nothing to violate since energy doesn't exist.* *Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! All the most profound questions in science and philosophy can be answered simply by saying

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 9:11 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *You go off on ridiculous tangents. I was just informing you that the > measurement problem is the collapse of the wf. It isn't that we don't know > what a measurement is. It's just an action to discover the value of some > observable.* *A**

​We could use a nuclear explosion to save the planet from a asteroid impact

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Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation couldn't explain exactly, or even > approximately, what a "measurement" is, * > > > *> Seriously; this is nonsense. Hardly anything can be explained > "exactly".* > *True but if you can't explain measurement

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 8:46 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> The observational fact that Bell's Inequality is violated. I find that > spooky, and as Niels Bohr said "anybody who is not shocked by quantum > mechanics does not understand it". * > > > *> Yes, we agree. It's truly spooky and tends to supp

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Re: By far this is the smartest AI yet

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *> You don't have great logical skills, do you ? Is the other way around: > If you find a conscious entity, it must be smart.* *I'm curious, how do you know when you have found a conscio

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 10:32 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> I love any idea that fits the observational facts, and I don't care if > it's spooky or not. * > > > *> What observational facts are you referring to?* > *The observational fact that Bell's Inequality is violated. I find that spooky, and

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

Alan Grayson wrote: *>> If you're assuming that at T=0 the ENTIRE universe could be contained > in a sphere of finite size then you're assuming that space is finite, the > very thing you're trying to prove. * > > > *> No. Not assuming that. Since there's universal agreement that our > bubble is

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> This entire business started by you asking what would happen at T=0 if > the universe started running backwards and obviously, regardless of if > space is finite or infinite, space would have to expand infinitely fast > because at T=0 it wou

Re: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, it is uncreated.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:09 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> Proof by Contradiction: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, > and came into being, that would be a type of singularity where it would > have to instantaneously expand infinitely in spatial extent.* *This entire business started

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Re: Trump unfit to serve say 111 former GOP officials and they endorse Harris

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New AI has an IQ of 120

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Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 8:12 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > > > On Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 5:40:42 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 1:16 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > > *I'll get back to you on this. I was thinking, as x increases positively >

Re: Radius of the Observable universe

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 2:01 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> I can't see how anything can recede at velocity > c and remain within > our Observable Universe. * *We can observe a very distant galaxy even though it is now moving away from us faster than the speed of light because we are not observing

Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 1:16 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *I'll get back to you on this. I was thinking, as x increases positively or > negatively, the y values (angles) repeat multiple times, making the > function many-to-one. In this case, we're mapping all the real numbers, to > a subset of the y-ax

AI chatbot got conspiracy theorists to question their convictions

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Re: Radius of the Observable universe

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 7:31 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > *when we approach the observable event horizon, the spatial expansion is > still increasing less than c,* > *Yes. Obviously you will not be able to see any stars receding from you faster than c. * > *so I don't see how the observational even

Re: Brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 1:20 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > The link goes to a Nature article: "Dimensional crossover in a quantum > gas of light." > at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02641-7 > *Yeah I was reading both articles and sent the wrong link. Sorry. This is the correct link. *

Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:46 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > How would you map (0,1) 1-1 onto the real numbers? > > > *F(x)=1/2 + 1/π Arctan(x) . The domain is all the real numbers and the > range is (0.1)* > > > *> This map isn't 1-1. Many x's correspond to the same point in (0,1). AG * > *This is a

Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 9:36 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > How would you map (0,1) 1-1 onto the real numbers? > *F(x)=1/2 + 1/π Arctan(x) . The domain is all the real numbers and the range is (0.1)* *> **Both sets have the same cardinality.* > * And a short line in a long line have the same cardina

Re: Brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug

*Sorry I gave a bad link. Let me try that again: * *The brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug* <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02938-w> John K Clark On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 4:34 PM John Clark wrote: > *Brain aged more slowly in monkeys give

Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 4:51 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > *an infinite universe cannot expand* *NO! In an infinite universe the distance between every particle in it and every other particle in it can still increase indefinitely. If a set is infinitely large then there is a proper subset of that s

Brain aged more slowly in monkeys given a cheap diabetes drug

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Re: Radius of the Observable universe

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 10:40 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> It has taken light from a star (or more likely from the CMB) 13.8 > billion years to reach us but during those 13.8 billion years the star has > not remained stationary relative to us, it has been accelerating away. In > fact telescopic obs

Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 10:54 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> At t = 0, what an infinite universe in spatial extent implies; namely, > no big bang, since that would require creating infinite spatial extent > instantaneously* *Neither Quantum Mechanics nor General Relativity can explain how something

Re: Radius of the Observable universe

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 12:53 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> It's claimed to be 46 billion LY, but its age is only measured as 13.8 > billion years. What I find puzzling about these numbers is that it seems > this would imply the rate of expansion must have been greater than c during > its lifetime.*

Re: Flat universe implies no Big Bang and Singularity at T = 0

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 6:58 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> If Flat implies infinite in spatial extent, it can't be realized > instantaneously at T = 0 (a type of singularity IMO). AG* *Regardless of if the universe is infinite or finite or flat or curved, we know that our current physics cannot te

Recent advances in quantum computing

*Microsoft announced they have entangled 12 logical qubits, the largest number ever entangled, on a 56-physical-qubit trapped-ion processor. They report a 0.2% error rate, which is more than 11 times better than they would’ve gotten without using quantum error-correction.* *Demonstration of quant

Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 3:26 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > *I prefer approximately spherical compared to flat because as we go > backward in time, we can enclose the universe in a sphere, implying it > is finite in spatial extent (not infinite).* *There is no such implication. If the universe is a

Can ChatGPT o1-preview Solve PhD-level Physics Textbook Problems?

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Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * >> physics is the language of mathematics, it's very good at describing >> things. An equation can describe how system X, that is made of mass/energy, >> can in an interval of time change into something different, system Y. But >> a language

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 1:08 AM Bruce Kellett wrote: >> *>> I thought you could get the appearance of randomness from a >> first-person perspective in MW? Has that been shown to not work?* >> > > *> I don't think that works. The idea often put forward is something along > the lines of self-locat

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Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:40 AM Liz R wrote: > *physics is possibly isomorphic to some set of equations that describe > reality, * *I agree, and that's why physics is the language of mathematics, it's very good at describing things. An equation can describe how system X, that is made of mass/

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Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

Alan Grayson wrote: *> For galaxies to fall out of view, they have to moving at greater than c. > Now they aren't receding that fast. How will they start moving that fast?* > *What the hell? * *> You're applying Hubble's law without thinking what it says. Just because > a galaxy is now recedin

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Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *>* *Given any sequence of states you can label them so as to represent a > computation. So I think the physics is really incidental to the > computation.* > *You need to make the labels, and making something involves a change, and a change ca

Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 3:57 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> Even if you ignore Dark Energy and postulate that the Hubble constant > really is constant, every object a megaparsec away (3.26 million > light-years) is moving away from us at about 70 kilometers per second. So > if you try to look at obj

Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 9:43 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> even if the rate of expansion stopped increasing it would still be true > that some galaxies we can see today we won't be able to see tomorrow. * > > > *> But you haven't explained WHY that is the case. AG * > *Even if you ignore Dark Energ

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Re: For Brent ...

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 1:19 PM Alan Grayson wrote: > *> If you're interested in the Tao instead of laughing at it, google > "chakra'. AG* *If you're really interested in The Tao then forget chakra and read "The Tao Is Silent" by Raymond Smullyan. It's one of the most brilliant books I've ever

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 2:14 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *> I generally agree with John, but I would point out that computation is a > physical process that realizes a mathematical process. * > *I think it would be more accurate to say it realizes an informational process because mathematics is just a

Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> the rate of expansion of the universe appears to be increasing, * *Yes but even if the rate of expansion stopped increasing it would still be true that some galaxies we can see today we won't be able to see tomorrow. * *> is it increasing f

Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 9:13 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *>> if you extended a line from you to any point on the sky it would >> eventually hit the center of a star, and so every point on the nighttime >> sky would be as bright as the sun. But that's not what we observe.* > > > *> As for the unobservab

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 7:10 PM Russell Standish wrote: > *> Most of the complexity of a billiard ball is accidental anyway.* *Even if you ignore the internal chemistry of a billiard ball a mathematical sphere is only an approximation of a billiard ball. It would take very little information t

Re: Length contraction in Special Relativity

On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 1:23 AM Brent Meeker wrote: *> Given that already since Olaf Römer's observations of 1676 it has been > known that light propagates at a finite speed, it would have been possible > more than 300 years ago to conclude that objects moving at nearly the speed > of light must l

Re: Amoeba's Secret openly available under CC-BY license

On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 11:16 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> I've been reading Marchal's de facto autobiography. It's hugely > impressive, leading me to be more open to his main conclusion, IIUC, that > arithmetic is at the core of reality, yes, physical reality. AG* > *If a mathematical sphere is the

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Data Centers in Orbit?

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Re: For Brent ...

my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> wai > > On Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 6:02:17 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 6:44 PM Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> * > I fail to see how your comments relate to the p

Re: For Brent ...

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 6:44 PM Alan Grayson wrote: * > I fail to see how your comments relate to the possibly ambiguous > concept of the latter. The metric tensor field seems ambiguously defined.* *A N dimensional space is composed of an uncountable number of real numbers but it can be unambigu

Re: For Brent ...

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 3:58 PM Alan Grayson wrote: *> I don't think you understand the issue. Velocities greater than c in the > underlying spacetime manifold are allowed in the construction of the > tangent plane,* I don't think you understand that the things that mathematics allows and the th

Re: For Brent ...

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 10:07 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> While spacetime might not have an infinite set of events, countable or > uncountable, the tangent space is constructed via a vector space with at > least a countable number of elements. * Even though there are an uncountably infinite number

Re: For Brent ...

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 10:48 PM Alan Grayson wrote: * > please explain how the metric tensor can be defined unambiguously at > some point P on the underlying manifold, spacetime, if there is an > uncountable set of pairs on a vector space on the tangent space at some > point P on which the metri

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Re: I am God

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 3:48 AM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Why is this knowledge not taught in schools ? > Because most people are not crackpots, not even in Florida despite the governor's incessant efforts to increase the number of ignoramuses

Re: Realization that the physical world doesn't exist

On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 3:47 AM 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: *>Why do people not realize that the physical world doesn't exist,* OK. But how would things be different if the physical world did exist? *>that is just an idea in consciousness ?* >

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Re: Politics, AI and Quantum Computing

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM PGC wrote: *> Regarding politics, some reflections on the Democratic Convention from > my perspective: Watching the proceedings I had time to watch, I couldn't > help but notice a focus on performance over substance.* > *Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 because she put

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Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 1:36 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > >> Just ONE bacteria placed in a sterile body of water the size of the >> Pacific Ocean could spread so that there were millions of bacteria in every >> square inch of it in just a few weeks, provided the ocean had the >> correct nutrients. An

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 8:06 PM Brent Meeker wrote: *>>> **if the Milky way has on produced a handful of vNps then it's not so >> implausible that none of have succeeded or even tried.* >> > > >> I don't know how you figure that. It seems ridiculously implausible to > me because it only takes one

Re: Dyson Spheres and the Fermi Paradox

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 6:17 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > *> **if the Milky way has on produced a handful of vNps then it's not so > implausible that none of have succeeded or even tried.* > I don't know how you figure that. It seems ridiculously implausible to me because it only takes one. > * >

Dyson ​Spheres​ and the Fermi Paradox

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Re: Question on the Lorentz Transformation (LT)

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*The below is a quote from the linked article: * *"Most people working in the field, however, believe that quantum computers will be able to solve problems that classical computers can’t solve within the next 10 years. This is according to a recent survey of 927 people with associations to the fi

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