Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site redwood.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!rhino!redwood!rpw3 From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Many worlds interpretation. Message-ID: <94@redwood.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 23:56:59 EST Article-I.D.: redwood.94 Posted: Tue Dec 11 23:56:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 00:18:50 EST References: <753@ttds.UUCP> Organization: [Consultant], Foster City, CA Lines: 24 Keywords: QM +--------------- | From: alf@ttds.UUCP (Thomas Sj|land) | 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 ? +--------------- No, but I find it interesting that there have been several science-fiction "time-travel" stories recently for which the "punch line" of the story is that causality isn't ever violated because the "Many Worlds" view is correct. (A' sends back a message, which A (an "earlier" A') receives, acts on, and grows up to be A". Oops!) Rob Warnock UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!dual}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 Envoy: rob.warnock/kingfisher USPS: 510 Trinidad Ln, Foster City, CA 94404