
James Gleick: Time Travel
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How to Fork Universes
i. happen to have an artifact here of forking universes i won't split completely but this t-shirt is the t-shirt from the third star wars movie which everybody knows was called the revenge of the jedi for a while and then the universe forked they thought that was too bloody and so they changed the return to the jedi in the film. One one bit of of science that i think is even though it's not official is actually really useful is aakam's razor don't look for complicated explanations when simpler ones will doDon't multiply entities unnecessarily well what is the most extreme example of multiplying entities unnecessarily then claiming that every time a particle splits the entire universe
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