Re: Toaster to Generate Random Numbers

From: Carlos Moreno (moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xx.xxx)
Date: 01/12/03 

From: Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xx.xxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 11:17:59 -0500

> In article <3E1EE997.7030905@xx.xxx>,
> Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xx.xxx> wrote:
>>I mean, after all, the exact position and state of
>>my body and my mind 1 minute from now will be one
>>and only one. Whatever it is, *it will be* that
>>particular *one* set of values; not two, not three
>>(yeah, we could talk about three possibilities; but
>>only one will happen -- the one that happens).
>
> The Many-Universes interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is based on the idea
> that *all* the possibilities happen. At each decision point, the universe
> splits up into different universes, each with different results.

Yes, I'm familiar with that "sci-fi notion" :-)

I mean, all the notions that this sub-thread deals with have
a certain sci-fi component. What I mean is that the many-
Universes notion, though it sounds interesting and fun
thinking about it and seeing movies about it, is completely
unsound from the scientific point of view.

That, of course, doesn't mean that it can not be the way
the Universe works.

But anyway, coming to the randomness issue, if we accept
that the universe follows the "simultaneous parallel
realities" model (the "many-universes"), then that doesn't
change at all what I was talking about. *The* universe
in which we are in, things followed *one* path, period.
That path is the same path for all times (from -infinity
to +infinity). That is, the infinite number of realities
were already an infinite number of "parallel realities"
one second after the big bang. Two different universes
may have seemed identical up until one point in time
at which they split into two. But one could argue that
no, they were already different -- maybe just one
molecule was different, and that is what at some point
had an effect noticeable at a larger scale.

Carlos 

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