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Quantum Immortality
One of the spookiest, yet entirely real phenomena of this crazy world we live.
Let's do the following Shroedingers-cat inspired thought experiment:
- You go to the lab and meet with your friends. It's an exciting day, as you plan a big experiment.
- They place you in a box, and seal it perfectly.
- In the box there is a chair which you sit on, then you grab the remote control.
- In the box is also a mechanism, with a powerful rifle (pointed at your head), connected to a machine that measures the spin of a quantum particle.
- The quantum particle can spin clockwise or counterclockwise, and change this randomly.
- Upon activating the measuring device with your remote control, the spin is determined and the rifle is fired if the spin returns clockwise. If it's counterclockwise, a beeping sound is heard.
You press the control...
>*Beep*
You take a deep breath and press it again
>*Beep*
Again...
>*Beep*
>*Beep*Beep*Beep*Beep*
After pressing it a total of 50 times you emerge from the box to find your labmates cheering and shocked in absolute awe.
What the hell just happened?
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>>19351252
But your friends possibly saw you die.
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>>19351252
Shroedinger's Cat is meant to display the utter insanity of trying to apply the concept of a superposition to anything on a macroscopic scale.
You cannot be in a superposition.
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>>19351252
Quantum immortality is neither spooky nor is it proven in any capacity.
It's a nice little thought experiment, but it relies entirely upon the assumption that the many-worlds interpretation is correct.
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>>19351292
No it doesn't, as >>19351273 says it's not supposed to be applied in a macroscopic scale, it's an analogy used to describe quantum mechanics.
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