quantum immortality

Quantum immortality is a theory of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum immortality is a thought experiment that puts forth the scenario in which you, as a person, survive definite quantum suicide. So, let's break that down into similar terms. Let's say you get into a box with a gun pointed at your dome. Somehow, the trigger measures the spin value of a proton every two seconds. If it spins one direction, it does nothing; if it spins the opposite direction, the trigger is pulled, and you die. The proton gives you a definite 50% chance of living, making it as random as it could be. Now, stay in that box until 200 seconds have gone by, the trigger being pulled 100 times. Your chances of random survival have now plummeted to 0.000, reassuring that you are indeed immortal. Every time you could have died, the world split into two—one where you face your demise and the other where you lived. Either way, the only one that you would have experienced was the one in which you lived, where your consciousness was existing. Because you can't know that you died since you've never experienced death, making you immortal.

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