WINNER RATMAFF - BEST SCIFI QUANTUM SUICIDE is a thought experiment devised in the 1980s. The experiment implies that if the ‘many worlds’ theory of quantum mechanics is true, then conscious beings are immortal. A physicist sits in a chair with a gun pointed at his head. The gun is attached to a machine that measure the spin of a quantum particle. Every time the trigger is pulled, the spin of the particle is measured. If the particle spins clockwise, the gun fires, killing the physicist. If the particle s
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