Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oakhill.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!davet From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Many worlds interpretation. Message-ID: <264@oakhill.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 06:51:45 EST Article-I.D.: oakhill.264 Posted: Mon Dec 10 06:51:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 06:20:46 EST References:Reply-To: davet@oakhill.UUCP (Dave Trissel) Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx Lines: 40 Summary: In article <753@ttds.UUCP> alf@ttds.UUCP (Thomas Sj|land) writes: >The "Many Worlds"-interpretation of reality seems to have the nice property >that "messages from the future" is not such a counter-intuitive >notion in that model as in more traditional ones. If we receive such a >message, we simply do not know which one of the possible futures sent it ! >Since all possible events occur in parallel the violation of "causality" >caused by such a message would not be such a big deal. >Has anyone got any pointers to some understandable text about the model >for amateur philosophers-physicists like myself ? (At the risk of offending scientific world-views...) About once or twice a year I seem to have quite precognative dreams. The first time I recognized it, I was so shook up (since such a thing is impossible) that I just blocked it out of my mind refusing to admit the event. After about a year I lost some of my fear and investigated a little deeper into what was going on. I started writing my dreams down and dating them regularly. The biggest problem (after I got over my scientific prejedices about refusing to admit such things were possible) is determining how conclusive an event was predicted via dream content. But, to the point. I have a fascination with any physical theory which would admit to the possibility of precognition. Any good references would be appreciated. To: those who think precognition impossible. I once did too. Without evidence to the contrary you *should* think it impossible. Whether or not you would come to the same conclusion with the same experiences I had - I think would vary from person to person. To: those who think they have had precognative dreams (or waking experiences) feel free to contact me. Working at Motorola and other high-tech places has shown me most people are too afraid to mention their situations in front of others, but once they don't feel threatened it is quite enlightening to see the number that have experiences. (Of course the difficult part is determining how genuine the experience is. For most cases there is no way to tell.) To: those who wish to debate the possibility, perhaps net.philosophy. Motorola Semiconductor Dave Trissel Austin, Texas {ihnp4,seismo,gatech,ctvax}|ut-sally|oakhill|davet