<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Sorry I support <span id="misspell-0">deBB</span> [<span id="misspell-1">de</span> <span id="misspell-2">Brolie</span>-<span id="misspell-3">Bohm</span>]-like deterministic</span></div><div><span>QM theories. The groups are what they are.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Dennis</span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> spike <spike66@att.net><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> 'Dennis May' <dennislmay@yahoo.com>; '<span id="misspell-4">ExI</span> chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:38 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [<span id="misspell-5">ExI</span>] Quantum Computing Discussion Groups?<br></font><br><div id="yiv1463845286"><style><!--
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--></style><div class="yiv1463845286WordSection1"><div class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>>…</span><span style='font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dennis May<br><b>Subject:</b> [<span id="misspell-6">ExI</span>] Quantum Computing Discussion Groups?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 14pt;">>…</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Anyone have a recommendation for a group
to listen in on</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">discussions of quantum computing? Most I have been</span></div></div><div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">able to locate are the same as dead</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 14pt;">…</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Dennis May</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div style="background: white;"
class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Dennis the discussion groups you seek are either alive or dead, but according to the Copenhagen interpretation, the groups are simultaneously alive and dead. The Many Worlds interpretation has the universe branching: one universe exists in which the discussion group is alive, another parallel universe in which the group is dead. If you are a Many Worlds type, your joining such a group steers our universe into the alive group branch, which is the universe I prefer. If you are a <span id="misspell-7">Copenhagener</span>, then your joining a dead group would remove the ambiguity, causing the quantum <span id="misspell-8">decoherence</span> to collapse into a live group.</span></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>
</span></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Therefore, rather than seeking a live quantum discussion group, it is your moral and ethical duty to intentionally join a dead group, for in that way you have saved an unknown number of lives. </span></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> </span></div><div style="background: white;" class="yiv1463845286MsoNormal"><span style='color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>spike</span></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>