From: hal@finney.org
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 10:53:36 MDT
Amara forwards,
> From: gregegan@netspace.zebra.net.au (Greg Egan)
> Newsgroups: sci.physics.research
> Subject: Re: Faster than light
> Date: 11 Sep 2000 13:14:18 GMT
>
> There's an interesting paper by David Deutsch at:
> <http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9906007>
>
> Information Flow in Entangled Quantum Systems
> Authors: David Deutsch, Patrick Hayden
We had some discussion of this paper last year; see the thread starting
at http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.2Q99/2552.html.
> A lighter but less filling paper with the same slant is
> <http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0003146>
>
> Does Quantum Nonlocality Exist? Bell's Theorem
> and the Many-Worlds Interpretation
> Authors: Frank J. Tipler
This one we also discussed (it wasn't very original), see
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians/0330.html.
> The reference to (Deutsch, 1999) doesn't give a title or preprint number,
> but I'm fairly sure it's this article, already on the preprint server:
> <http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9906015>
>
> Quantum Theory of Probability and Decisions
> Authors: David Deutsch
This one wasn't very good, it was a rather fishy mathematical argument
and I kept having the feeling that he was smuggling in his conclusions.
It reminded me of Davies' (I think) attempt in the MWI to make the theory
produce its own interpretation. Apparently this particular paper has
been refuted now.
It is interesting though to see that Greg Egan and Hans Moravec are
participating on sci.physics.research. Sounds like a lively place.
Hal
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