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Let's Kill You a Billion Times to Make You Immortal

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Many-worlds interpretation ensures survival

You might be immortal if the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true. In this view, every quantum event splits the universe, ensuring a version of you survives any fatal outcome.

  • ⚛️ The many-worlds interpretation suggests all possible quantum outcomes occur in separate, parallel universes.
  • 💥 If a deadly event occurs, one version of you dies, but countless others survive in new universes.
  • 🎲 Surviving a billion fatal events is statistically guaranteed from your subjective perspective, appearing as extreme luck.
  • ⚠️ This is a thought experiment; no definitive proof exists, and the 'shut up and calculate' view of quantum mechanics is also valid.

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