[Dixielandjazz] Alterates

[Hal Vickery]

My brain hurts!  (And I teach quantum mechanics at the high school level!)

Hal Vickery

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From: Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] What if Glenn Miller didn't die?
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In an alternate reality, Glenn Miller did not die. According to the 
Many
Worlds Interpretation, (a theory of Quantum Mechanics), he had the 
choice to
fly or not to fly. Therefore in our reality, he flew and died. (or died 
in a
whorehouse) But in the many world split, he did not fly or visit the
bordello and thus did not die. So Swing may indeed exist in that world. 
See
below for the simple explanation.

Or write to Fr Mike for further elucidation of alternate realities. :-) 
VBG

Or to boggle our minds, Google for <Many Worlds Interpretation>

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

In 1957, Hugh Everett III proposed a radical new way of dealing with 
some of
the more perplexing aspects of quantum mechanics. It became known as 
the
Many-Worlds Interpretation.

According to this interpretation, whenever numerous viable 
possibilities
exist, the world splits into many worlds, one world for each different
possibility (in this context, the term "worlds" refers to what most 
people
call "universes"). In each of these worlds, everything is identical, 
except
for that one different choice; from that point on, they develop
independently, and no communication is possible between them, so the 
people
living in those worlds (and splitting along with them) may have no idea 
that
this is going on.

In this way, the world branches endlessly. What is "the present" to us, 
lies
in the pasts of an uncountably huge number of different futures. 
Everything
that can happen, does, somewhere.

http://www.station1.net/DouglasJones/many.htm[/quote]
   
  Puts me in mind of a scenario I heard somewhere:
  God knows all things, so He even knows the consequences
  of the choices we don't make, as well as the choices we make.
  Therefore; at least in the mind of God, the courses we don't make
  have consequences known by God and they exist in God's consciousness,
  therefore, there are countless "stories" existing in God's mind that
  never occurred in life, since those choices were never made by us.
   
  Think about THAT for a while. 
  Marty Nichols
  Trombonist For Hire
  http://myspace.com/freemarty
  




 		
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