Comment on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:16:50 GMT

Could you provide an example please? I must apologise, I'm not competent with fundamental laws of physics, but why can't the most basic laws (the 'wave function' is apparently one of them) be specified logically? Wouldn't that just be a mathematical description of the first state of a universe? Then that whole universe, specified by the simplest law(s) would be one universe, and to those/us within that world would only be able to be affected by the things causally connected.

(I suppose I'm talking Tegmark's stuff, although I've only read Drescher's account)

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