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My rejected Application to FQXi on Quantum 2016

  Tegmark FQXi BBC Quantum Fractal  I still haven't heard anyone ask any questions about my paper that I published in the International Journal of Quantum Foundations. I still think it's remarkable that someone like me got accepted to publish, not peer reviewed, not one paper, but two.  Two complementary papers, the first  on the quantum  and the fractal, and a second  on the fractal, the large-scale structure of the universe , and I'm not even a physicist.  And I haven't heard a word.  I wrote a comment on a YouTube clip recently that 'I feel unmeasured'. I understand that I could be seen as a crank, but the journal editor didn't think so. There's no way he would've let it go in if he thought that. He wrote to me that he thought my work was 'interesting'. Maybe they just needed my money. Joking. I'd like to share with you a little backstory of how I applied for a grant from the FQXI foundation on the topic of the observer. It was back in...

The Multiverse must be true.

 The Multiverse must be true.  Last night, while listening to an audiobook on physics and the topic of the Multiverse, I realized that the Multiverse may well be true. Up until this point, I had thought it was just absolute nonsense, a little bit woo-woo, something that is not useful, and, like they all say, out of the reach of the scientific method. But then it had me thinking, and very quickly, I came to the conclusion that why not? My thinking at the time went something like this: what if I were so isolated that all there was was me, what would I be thinking about my origins? I would have no information to know that my story is the story we know now, the human story, the life story, the story of life on Earth. So are we in that room when it comes to the universe, the Big Bang universe? Already, the universe is far older than I led to believe it is, and what if it is just a node, a branch on this? I pause to say it is an infinite tree. I'll stop there because it is a little...

The Drake equation should include the abundance of elements.

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 I just wrote this in a comment to the following clip. The Drake equation should include the abundance of elements. It is amazing to think we have them all, but do others?