perhaps 1980 still exists - but only as a fragmented ‘state’ - where all the fragmented perspectives of everyone who lived then reside in a separated state of reality in each persons memory. A mosaic of time
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:09 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 8/8/2019 10:33 PM, smitra wrote: > > I remember the year 1980, but what I remember is due to brain > > processes that exist right now. I can only ever probe the present > > moment, there is no way to prove that 1980 physically exists or > > existed (whatever the past tense is supposed to mean). So, if 1980 > > exists (existed) it must be considered to be a parallel world where > > the people in our memory of that time really exist (existed). The time > > evolution operator from that time to the present can be expanded in a > > basis where complete sets of commuting local observables are diagonal. > > One of the simultaneous eigenstates is the present world we find > > ourselves in. So, if we assume that 1980 is indeed real and the > > present world which is one particular component of that same 1980 > > state written in a different basis, then it's plausible that all the > > other MWI parallel worlds of 2019 are equally real. > > Or to recap. There's a world which we believe is real because we > remember it and find consistent evidence of it today. Therefore we > should believe in the existence of worlds for which we have no evidence > or memories. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/3e40cede-c108-402c-7d3f-cd25c8f8a29d%40verizon.net > . > -- Jennifer O'Bryon 70 North Main Street Bryant Pond, Maine 04219 207-418-2496 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAAgt4%2BGrW-v%3DkXB-4Y8s-w4z-55WqJZEhyGxcrROn1w%2BKWJnLg%40mail.gmail.com.
