Re: [asa] Quantum quackery

I'd be more worried about this result if there weren't a different matter
that goes back to the early 20th century. French engineers were trying to
classify all possible motions so as to have a mechanism to simply plug
in. A chap named Koenigs presented a proof that there were an infinite
number of ways to generate each motion. I found his paper in the /Seances
hebdomadaire .../ in the UCLA Science Library years ago. Poincare
expanded the proof to specify that any set of measurements meeting the
least action principle could have an infinite set of covering theories.
So the questions become: Do all possible theories of quantum mechanics
involve this relationship to parallel universes? Are the parallel
universes actual or merely potential/imaginary? I note that certain
matters in modal logic involve the notion of a large, if not infinite,
set of possible universes.
Dave (ASA)

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:09:13 -0700 PvM <pvm.pandas@gmail.com> writes:
> New Scientist reports
>
> <quote>David Deutsch at the University of Oxford and colleagues
> have
> shown that key equations of quantum mechanics arise from the
> mathematics of parallel universes. "This work will go down as one
> of
> the most important developments in the history of science," says
> Andy
> Albrecht, a physicist at the University of California at Davis. In
> one
> parallel universe, at least, it will - whether it does in our one
> remains to be seen.</quote>
>
> Wow... More trouble for probability calculations...
>
> http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.html
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Received on Thu Sep 20 23:22:57 2007