From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat May 10 2003 - 15:08:39 MDT
Ander Sandburg said:
<<Unless they were very likely to cause the expansion of more
domains like that... hey! Quite possibly a good way out of the
conundrum of the essay is that such cascades of baby universes are
very common, manageing to crowd out the natural expansion-creation
cycle that makes most domains miraculous. If the likeliehood of an
inhabited domain inducing inflation was higher than the
spontaneous fluctuations and the resulting domain also shared this
property, then these would rapidly come to dominate the set of
worlds. And that would make most worlds non-miraculous!>>
Sounds like Edward Harrison's "angels" messing with reality as they travel
back through time and such. It also remind me of directed evolution which has
been the premise of the creationists.
<<Anybody feeling for writing a paper analysing this?>>
Those who may be qualified to write of such matters seem reluctant to set
them in print. A lot of physicists seem unwilling to get into philosophy, and
not that many philosophers are willing to elaborate on physics.
Neuroscientists, such as yourself are welcome, and perhaps more likely to
produce useful results as life-scientists seem to be leading the way in
cutting-edge thinking.
Mitch
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