iainjcoleman comments on Causal Universes - LessWrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: iainjcoleman 05 December 2012 11:32:29PM 0 points [-]

How does the mass-energy of a dead grandfather differ from the mass-energy of a live one?

Comment author: shminux 05 December 2012 11:37:13PM 5 points [-]

Pretty drastically. One is decaying in the ground, the other is moving about in search of a mate. Most people have no trouble telling the difference.

Comment author: [deleted] 06 December 2012 01:20:20AM 3 points [-]

The total four-momentum may well be the same in both case, but the stress-energy-momentum tensor is different (the blood is moving in the live grandfather but not the dead one, etc., etc.)