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The Quantum Theory That Might Make You Immortal

Sep 22, 202016 min
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Episode description

The Quantum Suicide experiment (ironically also known as quantum immortality) is a product of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which says that quantum particles never leave superposition, just that our perspective makes it look to us like the wave function collapses. It gets deep. And weird.

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