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- From: andy@laguna.santafe.edu (Andy Mell)
- Subject: Re: Are there plans to perform a quantum eraser type experiment?
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- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 01:39:07 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- References: <1992Dec27.010505.29958@colorado.edu> <C0045E.5w0@world.std.com> <1993Jan1.022047.23354@smsc.sony.com>
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- In article <1993Jan1.022047.23354@smsc.sony.com> markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:
- >
- >But it isn't a real event. The universe doesn't "split up" according
- >to Everett. The whole beauty of Everett's work is that "collapse" is
- >not a physical event and neither is some bizarre "splitting up" of the
- >universe.
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- This worries me, I know its not a real event, but consider the possibility
- that some mad physicist designs an experiment to test some pet theory of
- his. Without realising the consequences they switch on, and the known
- universe goes 'poof' into nothingness.
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- Would we notice such an event? Or is this just purely philosophical?
- Yes, its purely philosophical... Comments?
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- A
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