> Ken Boyd wrote:
>
> > A time-static attempt would look like this [I'll go for a planar graph]:
> > Let each universe be compressed from 4-D to 1-D [yes, my handling of
> > local time is going to be horrible.]. In coordinates, dedicate a ray
> > parallel to the y-axis to each universe, i.e. x=a. [pointing up]
> >
> > Each quantum event that causes a "branch", in this graph, shows up as the
> > sudden existence of new lines.
>
> Right. Gottit.
>
> > [I'm not explicitly graphing the
> > *contents* of the lines] In particular, no "copy process" is involved.
> > A single branch would look like this:
> >
> > | | | | | | |
> > | | | | | | | [Quantum Event]
> > |
> > |
> > |
>
> Cheers for that.
>
> Point: Can an atomic event have more than 2 possible outcomes? I guess
> it can, but I don't know. Is this why there are more than one line
> appearing at the same time (in the broadest possible sense of the word)?
Many example events [none on my fingertips, alas] have as many
possible outcomes as the integers, but only finitely many outcomes are
required to attain 1-(epsilon).
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