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Does Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?

PBS Space Time · Season 2020 · Episode 9
If we can’t ever peer into these other realities that are used to explain quantum mechanics, how do we know they exist? In order to understand what happens to those different branches, and to understand why we find ourselves in one of them, we need to embrace one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics.

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Season
2020
Episode
9
Air Date
03/Mar/2020
Air Time
12:00
Runtime
18 min

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If we can’t ever peer into these other realities that are used to explain quantum mechanics, how do we know they exist? In order to understand what happens to those different branches, and to understand why we find ourselves in one of them, we need to embrace one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics.

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