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#648 - Chris Ferrie - 7 Ways To Ruin Your Life With Lies From Quantum Physics

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The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Physics

There's no, it's an interpretation of quantum physics. So you have this idea of superposition and then the cartoon explanation is like things can be in two states at once. But when you go to measure them, only one, one of them occurs. And I think for most people, it's a luring because it gives you this sense that you could have done things differently or there are better options that you could take. There's another version of me that was more successful or didn't have health problems. It's just something that people kind of, yeah, people like, but it's not based on anything that's measurable. Like you can't test test the many worlds hypothesis

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