Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!rna!serge From: serge@rna.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Many worlds interpretation. Message-ID: <34500001@rna.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 17:04:00 EST Article-I.D.: rna.34500001 Posted: Mon Dec 17 17:04:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 04:47:21 EST References: <753@ttds.UUCP> Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:ttds:-75300:rna:34500001:000:614 Nf-From: rna!serge Dec 11 17:04:00 1984 /***** rna:net.physics / ttds!alf / 2:47 pm Dec 8, 1984*/ 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 ? /* ---------- */