Re: virus: real world?

jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com
Thu, 16 Jan 97 14:19:24 GMT


Alex Williams wrote:

> jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com wrote:
> > Right. Here's partly what I've been hung up on during the couse of
> > discussion. I can't see how things can /just come into being/. Perhaps
> > my brain just isn't configured to handle the idea, as it violates all the
> > physics I've ever learned.
>
> Think of it less as `coming into being' and more of `the set of
> universe-states you know self-partition.' In Hilbert Space, the space
> that makes up the current `phase' of the universe /thins/, narrows as
> compared to the flow of time, so that its not so much `coming into
> being' as `pinching off.'

That is certainly much easier to picture, cheers, I'll keep that picture
for this discussion.

Drakir