[extropy-chat] Mangled Worlds

[Robin Hanson]

At 09:05 AM 2/24/2006, Dirk Bruere wrote:
>Mangled worlds are not small because they are mangled,
>they become mangled as they become too small.
>
>That rather suggests that there is a 'graininess' to the multiverse 
>and that it cannot be subdivided infinitely. What evidence for that 
>exists? It also implies some kind of non-linearity in QM. 
>Experimentally nothing has been discovered to within (IIRC) about 1 in 10^26

No, mine is a "theory" about the exact theoretical consequences of 
the standard linear quantum evolution rule.  Absolutely nothing is 
changed or added to that rule; the question is what exactly that rule implies.



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