Quantum Meep but...
#47
Posted 15 October 2004 - 02:56 AM
And it works in reverse, every atom in our universe is in itself an entirely new universe, and so on and so forth. So when it comes down to it, we could all be obliterated at any instance in time, however on the brigth side if we do, well take down infinite life forms with us
#49
Posted 15 October 2004 - 08:47 PM
If you died and then switched into a universe wherein at the very last second, some freakish incident of chance occured so that your life was saved....well, if there's an infinite number of things that could have happened to saved your life, and they each actually happen in a different universe, then what determines which universe your consciousness goes into? Would you wind up in one randomly, or would you wind up in the one that is more likely to occur than the others based on probability, or would you switch into all of those universes at once and get really really confused?
Remember Emu's face, people; one day it's going to be on the news alongside a headline about blowing some landmark to smithereens, and then we can all sigh and say, "She was such a normal person".....
....We'd be lying though.
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#51
Posted 16 October 2004 - 05:50 AM
Emu, if your conscience did jump to multiple universes at once, it wouldn't be aware of it. It would have to split so that each are independant of the other.
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#52
Posted 16 October 2004 - 09:02 AM
Or something like that.
Wow. I just read about this a week ago. This is insane. (yeah, yeah, I know I'm late)
I think Schroedinger's cat is just a load of crap. How can a cat be fucking alive AND dead at the same time??? And the opening of the box determines whether the cat lives or dies? Consider this. Use an X-Ray device to keep an eye on the cat in the box. Or even better, use a wireless camera or something, or don't do that if the cat is a violent one.
And Bob, who said that "In Schroedinger's Box the cat is always either live or dead; it cannot be both (or neither) regardless of observation or not.", go read the Discover magazine dedicated to Einstein(I think it was the Septemer 2004 edition). There are a lot more thories that could make you scream in that book. Or maybe make you jump with joy with the revelations if you're an intellectual.
#53
Posted 16 October 2004 - 09:55 AM
But then you are observing it. See?
#54
Posted 16 October 2004 - 12:05 PM
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
#55
Posted 17 October 2004 - 12:50 AM
Edit: typo.
This post has been edited by SimeSublime: 17 October 2004 - 12:50 AM
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#56
Posted 26 October 2004 - 03:43 AM
But something called "decoherence" is now thought to prevent all the crazy quantum superposition stuff affecting large objects like cats. (or spiders)
#57
Posted 26 October 2004 - 04:30 AM
#58
Posted 26 October 2004 - 05:22 AM
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