bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week ago
I think we’re experiencing quantum immortality.
You can achieve quantum immortality through this experiment: Play russian roulette with yourself for as many rounds as you like. In the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics a particle takes up every possible position of its wave function in parallel universes. Since you can only experience a universe in which you are alive you will experience those where the particles aligned for you to win russian roulette. Of course everyone else is more likely to experience a universe in which you are dead.
Now, with all the crises happening in the last century it is exceedingly likely that a world ending event happened. Since we cannot experience those universes where they did happen, the universe we do find ourselves in is getting more and more unlikely. More and more ridiculous.
Of course the most ridiculous event was the killing of Harambe, dooming us to the worst timeline possible.
Now, with all the crises happening in the last century it is exceedingly likely that a world ending event happened. Since we cannot experience those universes where they did happen, the universe we do find ourselves in is getting more and more unlikely. More and more ridiculous.
I think there are 99 Dead Timelines where Vasily Arhkipov or Stannislav Petrov weren’t at work.
What you are describing is buddhism with extra steps.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hello? Yes, I would like one survivorship bias, please, but could you add some physics and a little philosophy so it’s less obvious I have an untestable, maladaptive hypothesis? Oh, and coping mechanisms on half. Thanks!
In all seriousness, it’s a fun theory, but it’s unknowable at this point.
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s not unknowable, you just have to conduct enough tests personally to have a reasonable level of confidence.
You shouldn’t, but you could.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Okay, first of all, that’s clever and hilarious, so thank you.
Secondly, I put it to you that testing this either results in the end of personal knowledge entirely or else an outcome that can’t be peer-reviewed. I feel like that’s a pretty hard limit on the knowledge that can be gained here.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 week ago
To test this you need an external observer who can register every quantum outcome and therefore can see/measure in every quantum reality. How else would you get verifiable and reproducable data?
We are very far away from such a possibility, we don’t even know for sure if quantum theory (or which one of the many specific quantum theories) in general or the many worlds interpretation in speciality is even correct or not.
It is a nice thought experiment though.