which explains why you are not here ()kill filed).
"Neil B." wrote:
> Here's my humorous take on science and politics, modified from my recent
> posts to NG alt.fan.rawilson and Backreaction blog:
>
> My subtle quantum psi powers* tell me that the LHC did indeed "destroy
> the world" last week, but it doesn't matter anyway ...!? "The" world
> didn't get destroyed because there are so many of them according to the
> Everett-DeWitt "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics. In the MW
> theory, each instance of random possibility branches into entire new
> universes expressing every option. (Like, whether Schrödinger's cat dies
> or not at any given moment. BTW don't let decoherence sophists take the
> mystery away.)
>
> For example, suppose that the chance of LHC experiments to date
> destroying the Earth is about 99.99%. You're ordinarily inclined to say,
> "we" probably wouldn't have made it. (That's a unique "we" in one
> universe, as conventionally imagined.) But suppose E-DW MW is true, and
> me and readers of this post are just in a multiverse branch that
> survived! The LHC may have already destroyed most Earths and "we" can't
> tell the difference!
> ("Quantum suicide" [hint - you survive the attempt!]:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality)
> (* inside joke, including the asterisk)
>
> Here's something you can try: set up a "cat" type arrangement to kill
> you if McCain/Palin win the election, but leave you fully intact if they
> lose (put aside recount scandals, heh.) Hence, even if they have a 99%
> or whatever chance of winning, "you" (well, those versions of you that
> get through) will survive and be able to enjoy an Obama-Biden
> administration! Modify for any situation you don't want to put up with,
> like today's big financial meltdown! You can even ensure you win the
> lottery, etc.! Isn't that cool?!
>
> The genuine logical problems for scientific method, expectation issues,
> etc. in this regard mean that maybe MW is BS after all ...But a man, or
> woman, can dream; or what's a heaven or multiple worlds for?
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