X-Message-Number: 11058 Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 16:25:50 +0100 From: (John de Rivaz) Subject: Quantum Mechanics In article: <> writes: > From: (del) > Quantum questions are relevant and highly uncertain. (!) If we really > do live in a "multiverse" with vast numbers of near-duplicates of > ourselves, questions proliferate almost as fast as the variations. (I hope > the "multiverse" proves false, because the implications seem grisly. If > "anything" and "everything" actually happens--to you!--this is surely a > tragedy beyond imagining, because only a tiny subset of the possibilities > are happy ones (del) There is also the suggestion by QM that nothing has happened that has not been observed. Thus the famous cat whose life is dependent on a geiger click is neither dead or alive until someone has observed which it is. If the multiverse conjecture is correct, then any individual cannot observe a universe in which he is dead. But if anything is possible, then there must be some universes in which he lives for ever. It is also likely that those universes (or probabilities) in which he is dead are preceded by his being miserable. Could it be that what our consciousness perceives is the most probable outcome of everything that has happened to all our versions? As we advance into old age, then things have to appear that extend life. Are the other beings that we see around us real in the same way? We have all observed Carl Sagan, and that he rejected cryonics and is annihilated. But the Carl Sagan consciousness may still exist in other universes where he has used cryonics or encountered a technology that cured his illness or *indeed the most probable universe never got it in the first place.* -- Sincerely, * Longevity Report: http://www.longevb.demon.co.uk/lr.htm John de Rivaz * Fractal Report: http://www.longevb.demon.co.uk/fr.htm **************** Homepage:http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohndeR In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11058