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Subject: Re:  Help
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 22:36:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 22:36:27 1984
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In reference to the "source of physical laws", I've thought of an interesting
theory relating to Zeno's paradox, which "proves" that motion is impossible:
to travel a unit distance requires traveling half that distance, then the
other half; each half is broken down recursively, ad infinitum, so that
any motion requires moving an infinite number of infinitesemal distances,
taking infinite time.
The solution to this paradox is easy with quantum dynamics: once the distance
is below that given by the uncertainty principle, it has effectively
already been taken.  Zeno's paradox then *explains* motion as a number
of quantum jumps.

In relation to the origins of physical laws: suppose that in the initial
singularity (t==0), the universe was in a "juxtaposition of states"
where it had the possibility of many sets of physical laws - any of these
sets that did not have quantum uncertainty or something similar would
fall to Zeno's paradox, and literally never get anywhere, while the one
that eventually hit p==1 when things cooled down would have to have this
property.

(This is probably complete nonsense, but might just have some meaning to it.
Just a thought.)

-John Owens
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