Re: Lottery drawings and sensitivity to initial conditions

Wasn't it Eivind Kjorstad who wrote:
>
>So, put simply: I find it likely that even -without- the time-travveler 
>the results would be different.

I was going to say that in my post, but then I got a bit confused about 
what the results would be different from. If there isn't a time 
traveller, then this isn't two different lottery drawings with identical 
initial conditions, it's the same lottery drawing in the same time line. 
I can't get my head around what that means in the Copenhagen 
interpretation.

In the many-worlds quantum interpretation, a perfect lottery machine 
would spawn a new world for every possible lottery result. If we add 
back the time traveller into such an interpretation, then the machine 
still spawns a new world for every possible lottery result, and the 
traveller's information about the result in his timeline is irrelevant.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure