Re: SGA--Living it up in the Hotel Stargate Atlantis ("The Last Man" spoilers)

In article <hmjpa5-3lp.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, spike1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Dan Lanciani <ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> did eloquently scribble:
| > A Many Worlds interpretation does not allow for interactions between
| > realities.
| 
| Under normal cir***stances, there ARE no such interactions.

The problem is that Many Worlds as such does not admit interactions under
abnormal cir***stances either.  Extending it to sup****t interations isn't
intuitively obvious.  I think you end up with another dimension of
infinities
and it still doesn't solve the real problem.

| > You can try to hand-wave something that is like Many Worlds but does
allow
| > such interactions (it might be harder than you expect) but the fact
that the
| > quantum mirror lets "you" go back to "your" reality (even after you
turn it
| > off!) argues against infinite branching.
| 
| Who's to say they DID end up back in their reality?

That's not the problem.  The problem is even talking about "their" reality
in an infinitely branching model.  While they were visiting the other
reality
it and their home reality would each branch an infinite number of times
for
potentially unrelated reasons.  How do you map each of the infinite
returning
teams uniquely to "their" home reality?

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]