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Thanks Carl! Here is the referee's original report. I sent a revised draft that was accepted. "A Referee report on D. Strayhorn's paper: "An Illustration of..." The paper discusses a variation of the "Many World Interpretation" (MWI) of quantum mechanics. As such, the paper does not...

paper accepted! Good news! A revised version of my second paper, "An illustration of the quantitative problem of the multiple worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the motivation for outcome counting," has been accepted for publication in Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie...

I should have posted this a long time ago: there is an online version of my paper, posted at philica: "Derivation of the Born rule from outcome counting and a solution to the quantitative problem of the multiple worlds interpretation" http://www.philica.com/display_article.php?article_id=28...

oops -- should have said 6, not 7.:rolleyes:

journal submission: slow review process On 5 Oct 06 I submitted my paper, along with a short companion, to The Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie http://www.ensmp.fr/aflb/AFLB-Web/en-annales-index.htm , at about the same time that I originally posted this thread - more than seven months...

You know, that sounds to me like a stupendously tiny investment in something as important as the search for QG. I think someone should take this number to Bill Gates and suggest that he donate, oh, 25 billion dollars (over the next 20 years, say) to theoretical physics research. Sounds crazy...

Here's an idea for a way out of the mass paradox. iiuc, the uncertainty principle is what gives rise to the above calculation, and you're using something on the order of 10-18m for delta-x. But it seems to me that delta-x, at least in some formulations, should come from somewhere else. My...

Good! I hope you will contact him. You and Mark are certainly welcome to discuss ideas (if you would like to do so publicly) in my yahoo! group, QM_from_GR -- Mark is one of the group members. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QM_from_GR/ David

Hey bananan and others, In that case Yershov might be interested in the work of Mark Hadley, who proposes a general framework for the derivation of QM from GR, and has in particular pursued models of particles based on topological constructs like wormholes. He calls his particles geons, and...

:blushing: thanks! yup, I agree One of my favorite analogies is a comparison of QM to a great beast, with each formulation/interpretation (Bohm, MWI, FPI, etc) compared to looking at the beast from a different angle. Each viewpoint gives you correct information about what the beast looks...

You've got to respect Smolin for walkin the walk, not just talkin the talk. I just realized that he is on the scientific advisory panel of the Foundational Questions Institute http://www.fqxi.org/about.html , whose mission is (from their website) "To catalyze, support, and disseminate research...

Hello all, Attached is the draft of a paper entitled, Derivation of the Born rule from outcome counting and a solution to the quantitative problem of the MWI, (MWI = multiple worlds interpretation), which I am considering for submission to Les Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie. I would...

Huw Price Hey everyone, I ran across this recent paper [1] (it was posted to Vic Stenger's list) that is relevant to the issues of this thread. "Egalitarianism" (= the APP) is discussed, and Huw seems to agree with Wallace and Greaves that Egalitarianism is "not ... a serious possibility."...

I got Zee and Schroeder/Peskin in the mail yesterday :biggrin: ... Zee has several pages (the beginning of cap I.3) explaining how we go from the lagrangian to the lagrangian density -- the most explicit that I have run across. I still need some time to go through the mathematical details (busy...

Hey Mike and Hurkyl, Does "A --/--> B" mean "A does not imply B" ? From one of the companion threads to this discussion, I've been swinging back and forth in my thinking / understanding of whether QFT ==> GR. Gettin' me dizzy ... ds