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Re: The halting problem revisited

From	"javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: The halting problem revisited
Date	2011-04-04 20:36 -0400
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On 30/03/2011 8:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<imsh0v$11t$1@speranza.aioe.org>, javax.swing.JSnarker wrote:
>
>> Actually, QM randomness is a symptom of indexical uncertainty about
>> which exact universe you're in out of many that look identical up to a
>> certain point in time and then diverge, more or less.
>
> The “multiple universes” interpretation doesn’t really explain anything. How
> does it deal with entanglement, for example?

Entanglement is just correlation across universes.

If we have an ensemble of universes in half of which electron A is 
spin-up and electron B is spin-down and in the other half of which 
electron A is spin-down and electron B is spin-up, if an observer in the 
ensemble examines their local copy of electron A, then B, or vice versa, 
they will see opposite spins every time. On the other hand until they 
examine one or the other, they don't know which half of the ensemble 
they're in and so whichever they test first appears to be spin-up or 
spin-down completely at random.

-- 
public final class JSnarker
extends JComponent
A JSnarker is an NNTP-aware component that asynchronously provides 
snarky output when the Ego.needsPuncturing() event is fired in cljp.

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Re: The halting problem revisited "javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu> - 2011-03-29 07:49 -0400
  Re: The halting problem revisited Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-03-29 13:22 +0100
    Re: The halting problem revisited "javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu> - 2011-03-29 08:35 -0400
    Re: The halting problem revisited Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-29 11:39 -0400
      Re: The halting problem revisited Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-03-29 16:55 +0100
        Re: The halting problem revisited Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-03-29 11:59 -0400
          Re: The halting problem revisited Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com> - 2011-03-29 17:18 +0100
  Re: The halting problem revisited Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-03-31 13:15 +1300
    Re: The halting problem revisited "javax.swing.JSnarker" <gharriman@boojum.mit.edu> - 2011-04-04 20:36 -0400

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