At 06:03 PM 9/22/98 -0400, Michael Lorrey wrote:
>It shouldn't be on the radar screen as far as I know, as I was under the
>impression that Prof. John Cramer ( of the U of Wash. ), in a paper
>published in 1986, extended the implications of the Feynman interpretation
>of Quantum Dynamics (esp QCD) to prove that the Schroedinger's Cat Paradox
>is not a paradox at all, and therefore, multi-verse theory is bunk. This
>applies to the multiverse theory of parallel universes arising from the
>same big bang, not from the 'darwinian' theory of universe evolution, where
>the conditions optimum for life are also optimum for creation of black
>holes that spawn new universes.
>
I was thinking of such theories as Alexei Starobinsky/Alan Guth's 'daughter universe' theory, in which a false vacuum spot creates a wormhole with a bubble wall on the end of it that pops off to create another universe. Or Alexander Vilenkin's 'eternal inflation' theory, which posits repeat 'big bangs' that duplicate our own. Or Andrei Linde's 'self-reproducing' theory that involves additional universes in other dimensions. I haven't heard how Schoredinger's Cat applies to these theories, because they only posit additional universes, not additional universes that violate the laws of our own universe. When you think about it, we simply do not know what exists 'outside' of our own universe, or whether indeed we live in the only one. It may be that if we can come to an understanding of the universe that we live in, we would then understand other universes that do exist, if any.
Sin,
Kathryn Aegis