Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-18 Thread LizR
On 19 March 2015 at 06:36, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Only the one with a linear bottom seems to have the reasonable measure. > I have long realised this, but mine insists on being round and its measure is quite unreasonable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Mar 2015, at 04:34, Bruce Kellett wrote: meekerdb wrote: On 3/17/2015 2:50 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: To be sure, I have to meditate more on some of Sean Carroll saying about how to interpret stationary states in quantum mechanics, too. This is one of the more

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-17 Thread Bruce Kellett
meekerdb wrote: On 3/17/2015 2:50 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: To be sure, I have to meditate more on some of Sean Carroll saying about how to interpret stationary states in quantum mechanics, too. This is one of the more interesting questions Sean raises and I am not sure

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-17 Thread meekerdb
On 3/17/2015 2:50 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: To be sure, I have to meditate more on some of Sean Carroll saying about how to interpret stationary states in quantum mechanics, too. This is one of the more interesting questions Sean raises and I am not sure I have fully und

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-17 Thread Bruce Kellett
Bruno Marchal wrote: To be sure, I have to meditate more on some of Sean Carroll saying about how to interpret stationary states in quantum mechanics, too. This is one of the more interesting questions Sean raises and I am not sure I have fully understood his answer to the main problem. Th

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-17 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Mar 2015, at 15:33, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Mar 2015, at 02:07, meekerdb wrote: An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and providing a solution to the Boltzmann brain problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TF

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Mar 2015, at 02:07, meekerdb wrote: An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and providing a solution to the Boltzmann brain problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFy6Ben0Ho Note that toward the end he seems to req

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-12 Thread meekerdb
He says on his blog that the talk is based on this paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.0298v1.pdf Brent On 3/12/2015 1:35 PM, LizR wrote: I rarely get the chance to listen to talks (online or anywhere else) - I don't suppose there's a paper or something giving same ideas? On 12 March 2015 at 14:

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-12 Thread Bruce Kellett
LizR wrote: I rarely get the chance to listen to talks (online or anywhere else) - I don't suppose there's a paper or something giving same ideas? Try Boddy, Carroll and Pollack: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0298 Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-12 Thread LizR
I rarely get the chance to listen to talks (online or anywhere else) - I don't suppose there's a paper or something giving same ideas? On 12 March 2015 at 14:07, meekerdb wrote: > An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in > Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and pro

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-12 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
have you ever visited Motl's website? He is still solidly a string kind of guy. -Original Message- From: meekerdb To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Mar 12, 2015 11:36 am Subject: Re: Carroll and Motul You don't know what you're talking about. Maimon and Carroll are o

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-12 Thread meekerdb
You don't know what you're talking about. Maimon and Carroll are on the same side, pro-MWI. Motul is con-MWI. I don't know what Carroll's politics are - he doesn't push them like Motul does. But I regard both of as very competent physicists; which is why I read Motul's blog as well as Carro

Re: Carroll and Motul

2015-03-12 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
t, on all of this-you could be well-right. -Original Message- From: meekerdb To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sent: Wed, Mar 11, 2015 9:08 pm Subject: Carroll and Motul An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and p

Carroll and Motul

2015-03-11 Thread meekerdb
An excellent talk by Sean Carroll explicating where the gaps are in Everett's MWI as applied to cosmology and providing a solution to the Boltzmann brain problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFy6Ben0Ho Note that toward the end he seems to require a conscious observer to bottom out the epi