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236 | Thomas Hertog on Quantum Cosmology and Hawking's Final Theory
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Quantum Superposition of Spin Up and Spin Down
Every branch that grows out of the other you will no longer be contributing to this universe. So if I observe a spin that's in a superposition of spin up and spin down, and I see that it's spin up, do you think there's another version of me that saw spin down? Well, as an operational meaning, sure. But once the observation has unfolded, what happens to the other you? It's lost in a certain way.
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