Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
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Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?

C1AdvancedOctober 31, 202621 min
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To quote eminent scientist Tyler Durden, On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Actually, not necessarily. If the quantum multiverse is real, there may be a version of you that lives forever.

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INTRO In the last couple of episodes we've been delving into a key mystery of quantum mechanics. Why don't we have quantum magical powers? Or more scientifically, what causes the divide between the weird behavior of the quantum

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world and our large-scale macroscopic world? In particular, what causes quantum systems to transition from simultaneously existing in many states at the same time to having only one clear observable state at the moment of measurement?

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