From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 00:11:51 MST
Hal writes
> Lee Corbin writes regarding
> http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/physics/0302071:
>
> Referring to Tegmark's paper about four different ways that "parallel
> universes" arise in modern physics,
> http://it.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302131.
>
> > The central, compelling, and overwhelming fact: the theory
> > of Inflation, accepted by roughly 95% of cosmologists, calmly
> > predicts an infinity of Earths of any given description.
>
> This is only the second of Tegmark's four ways of finding infinite Earths.
In the way of speaking used by the two papers above, the theory
of inflation prescribes infinitely many Earths at level one. So
this is the *first* of Tegmark's levels. I think that it's Linde's
theories and perhaps others that posit infinitely many bubbles,
each of which is a level one universe.)
> Or, if Tegmark's first level works, homogeneity implies universal
> existence even without inflation.
Yes; but I gathered that the infinite homogeneity arises out
of inflation theory. That's what the second paper blatantly
claims. No?
Mitch wrote
> Everyone may exist, but I would state that the challenge is, to be part of a civilization that creates and promotes 2-way
communication with them all! This strikes me of an enhanced Dyson future. It is also impossible (for now) yet, if one measures how
well human creativity has succeeded with telecom, in the last 180 years; there is some merit to suspecting that we, and our
descendants (silicon-human-whatever) may continue to succeed in this endeavor.
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But let's take it a level deeper. *Why* do you want to engage
in 2-way communication? We probably should continue with Russell
Evermore in the thread "Extropian Principles". Isn't it just to
increment that which makes lives worth living? Namely,
joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, rapture, contentment, technolust...
Lee
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