Re: Conjugate variables and the universe

Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 02:49:20 -0800
From: Jonathan Baxter <jon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
To: quantum-d@teleport.com
Subject: QUANTUM-D: Re: Conjugate variables and the universe

I really like this idea of considering parallel
consciousness in momentum space. But why
stop just at momentum space? There are an infinitude of different
ways to coordinatize Hilbert space, why should position and
momentum be special? True, position and momentum have extremely low
entropy initial conditions (as Paul Easton points out, the momentum space
low entropy boundary is the position space high-entropy boundary, and
vice-versa), but maybe other coordinatizations will have even higher
disparity in the entropies of their boundary conditions?

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