Schrodinger's Coin - Quantum Multiverse Theory in Bioshock Infinite - Extra Credits

Bioshock Infinite takes us through Columbia where things aren't exactly right... And then we find Elizabeth who can tear rifts in reality. Booker, catch! But... how stable is this plot on real world physics? Strangely, Bioshock Infinite gets a lot right on the underlying quantum mechanics of the world. And it gets one very important thing wrong.
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[@kyleward3914]

I want to live in a universe where USB sticks are sometimes the right way up on the first try.

[@TheStartrek99]

It's coming. Once we transition fully to usb-c there won't be a right way up....

[@killajive1]

The side with the USB symbol goes up. I don’t get what the problem is very few cords don’t have the symbol on it. Just like I don’t get how people don’t know which side their gas tank is on. Your fuel gauge points to which side it’s on.

[@failuretv814]

H-How.....do you mess those up?

[@Erikulum]

The reverse-Murphy-Universe is a pretty chill place.

[@killajive1]

@@Erikulum reverse Murphy = what cannot happen will not happen?

[@zeshantariq698]

Okay wasn't the Schrodinger thought experiment done to make fun of the Copenhagen interpretation. The fact that the cat is both dead and alive makes "no sense" . I feel like this is an important note that people leave out...

[@AkaiAzul]

Aye. He made that thought experiment to ridicule the idea. Because, obviously, for the cat, it's always alive until it dies. The thought experiment also discredits the possibility of observing the cat dying, but not yet dead.

[@SavedServant]

THANK YOU!

[@connorhennessey1316]

Yes, there is a metric poop ton of terrible born out of the lack of understanding of quantum physics. The trick I learned was to remember that physics at this scale is so small we can't individually messure the properties of a million million atoms; but we can measure average properties of the chuck of iron thise atoms make up, then extrapolate information about some of those atoms from there.

[@quietone610]

And besides ALL that, the 'observer' in the quantum-mechanical sense isn't the person outside the box--it's the Geiger counter. The Geiger counter distills the radiation probability equation into a yes/no answer.

[@Alverant]

It makes no sense on a macro level, but on subatomic scales it does. It's also been confirmed by the double-slit experiment where individual photons are interfering with themselves.

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

Fry: So there's an infinite number of parallel universes? The Prof: Nope, just the one. Bender: Let's get out of here. I'm sick of Parallel Bender lording his Cowboy Hat over me.

[@angusosonnell6208]

Conservation of matter and energy really kills the many worlds interpretation for me.

[@Bopl_]

I hate it when they flash a message onscreen for a split second. Because then I need to go back and see what it says. It says “would you kindly” btw.

[@vaughnjohnson8767]

Yeah

[@peppermint13me]

Tip: use x0.25 speed

[@Bopl_]

Thanks that’s a really good idea I didn’t think about

[@vaughnjohnson8767]

@@Bopl_ I did that the first time and it was still hard

[@fusel5883]

Or just use the . And , keys to go frame by frame

[@ShumaBot]

I've never heard of an issue with the conservation of energy when referencing quantum multiverse theory. You're not actually creating a new universe after all when a probability is instantiated, all those alternative universes always existed. There's literally an infinite number of them according to theory, one for every possible configuration of matter at every possible point of time in an infinite universe. On the quantum level time isn't linear and when viewing quantum multiverses you're inherently an outside observer, meaning you aren't experiencing their time. Nothing is created or destroyed, a probability field collapse just confirms which universe you had always been in for that particular inflection point, and an infinite number of such collapses are occuring at all times. The theory is less about YOU making a decision and more about how a quantum field decides to interact at any given time. And as far as we know those decisions are wholly random. This unfortunately also implies that you can't travel between the multiverses since nothing ever does, they're not really connected.

[@rmsgrey]

Also, it's possible to have a universe where the net energy of the universe is 0 - the positive energy of all the mass within the universe being cancelled perfectly by the (negative) gravitational potential energy of all the mass within the universe due to being within each other's gravity wells.

[@durk5331]

I wouldn't say nothing moves between alternate universes, go read up on the story of the man from Taured...

[@samreid6010]

So you could say that Elizabeth’s ability is actually taking the universe back to that probability field and essentially rerolling the dice to get a reality that’s more beneficial as soon as the field collapses again

[@kishinasura1504]

"I can see all the doors, and what's behind all the doors. And behind one of them, incredibly, I see *him* ". -Last line of the whole Bioshock franchise

[@christiandauz3742]

I think that is 'Elizabeth' talking about the '1st Protagonist' and how he saves those girls

[@failuretv814]

Schrödinger's life must have been pretty weird. Like this scenario. "I have bought you a gift, it is a cat" "Is he alive inside this box?" "Perhaps, but i have no idea" "........"

[@micajango4177]

Is The Cat Alive? Schrödinger: Well Yes, But Actually No.

[@vaughnjohnson8767]

@@micajango4177 Schrödinger: But actually yes. It’s complicat3

[@PokeDeses]

Fun fact: Schrödinger came up with that thought experiment to demonstrate how absurd the concept of quantum superposition was. Turns out he was wrong.

[@edwardrhoads7283]

You know what they say, curiosity killed schrodinger's cat

[@phoephoe795]

So why do USB sticks work on the *3rd* try? Doesnt fit Turn it over Doesnt fit Turn it over again Does fit! (Quantum superposition)

[@ArkadiBolschek]

You answered your own question!

[@GrassesOn97]

Though there is potentially an infinite number of realities, none of them have Half-Life 3.

[@witecatj6007]

Further proof that Valve can't count to three.

[@joshuaevans4301]

This is an _extremely_ simplistic description of the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and conflates a lot of concepts with the Copenhagen interpretation. For example, in the Many Worlds interpretation there _is_ _no_ _collapse_ of the quantum system, all possibilities exist at once, and we only observe one possibility because we ourselves are quantum systems. I recommend watching / reading some of the work of Sean Carroll if you want a more accurate representation of our latest understanding of this model (though it should be noted that, while this is my favorite model, there is still a lot of controversy around this and nobody actually knows the true answer yet)

[@noahtabor9399]

1:00 says would you kindly

[@MrMaradok]

I wonder if it’s possible to think that, should the Elizabeth that we see in the game return to the right universe where she lost her pinky, that’d shed LOOSE her ability to create tears? It’d make sence to me - she’s no longer in two different realities, no longer breaking the rules of the universe. Heck you could even make the argument that she only had those powers because reality was like “What the heck?! That’s not - what - how - ok, here’s a way to get home, now GO HOME AND STOP BREAKING MY STUFF!”

[@hamilpatel4025]

"Would you kindly come back after you've finished the game"

[@ancsuther]

6:57 cat dan is one of the cutest things I've ever seen

[@darter9000]

4:30 Ah yes, good ole “Frasier”

[@DefektoPrime]

Had to scroll far to find someone mentioning this

[@vnewtatnik]

Ah, I'm not alone! What a delight!

[@vnewtatnik]

​@@DefektoPrime indeed!

[@ancsuther]

*Such interesting*

[@ancsuther]

@Julian Gutierrez do you know what a joke is

[@michaeldew7904]

I don't think that USB example is accurate. In my experience it's always the wrong way the first time. Then the 2nd time it becomes a 50/50 chance. There have been many occurrences that I've had to try 3 times to get it to work.

[@endplanets]

Even EC didn't bring up the Archangel, the most important character in the whole story... that they just kinda forgot about. Kinda like the Locust Queen from Gears of War

[@bastiaanzoetaert9628]

"The pinkerton agency" - EC episode

[@ayo__ayo]

I loved this game so much. I think I want to play it again too.

[@paullenoue8173]

Also note that by "looking" at subatomic particles they really mean something like sticking your finger in. It's a physical interaction to determine it's properties. There's no mystic eye magic involved. This "looking" by touching/interacting/mucking about causes things to happen or change. So don't try to convince yourself staring at broccoli will turn it into ice cream, nor will poking it repeatedly with a stick.

[@Burred11]

Now while the perseverance of mass and energy does discredit the idea that "with every decision comes a new parallel universe", one might also dismiss that idea, because we also don't know where our mass and energy came from.

[@AkaiAzul]

What does the origin of our mass and energy mean? Our current understanding is the big bang, and we have no idea exactly what the origin of the big bang is, but funnily, the thought of the big bang as the origin of our universe is also misleading, for our universe existed before the big bang. In other words, beyond the furthest piece of matter/energy is space that can be travelled to; after all our current expansion of the universe is because of this. Thus before the big bang there was always space for matter and energy to move into. Thus, the big bang itself is not the origin of our universe, but the origin of matter/energy within our universe.

[@iloveprivacy8167]

@@AkaiAzul ? Are you a physicist? I'm not, but my understanding of the Big Bang is that it happened right here: in the palm of my hand. And in the palm of your hand. And on Mars, in the middle of the Sun, and on the other side of the Andromeda Galaxy. It's an expanding balloon that we're inside of. And since it was the start of time as we know it, there was no "before", at least, not that we could conceive of. I'm here to learn: somebody tell me where I'm wrong?

[@davidgustavsson4000]

I'm a physicist. Yes, every part of you was present in the big bang, it wasn't mass expanding into space, but space itself expanding. But no, there is no violation of conservation of energy in many-worlds theory. If you're talking of alternate universes, it doesn't make sense to talk about creating energy to make them. They would come with their own energy.

[@rmsgrey]

Are we sure our universe has energy? If you have a simple system with two masses and some distance between them, then the closer the masses are together, the less energy the system has (and vice versa - the further apart, the more energy) - at some distance, the energy lost (relative to having them infinitely far apart) matches the mass-energy of the two masses.

[@theunholyburger9338]

"would you kindly" well I can't say no to that

[@c.b.816]

Dark energy could be all of the other choices in our verse that we did not take, or similarly the energy from the decay of the wavefront to a singularity.

[@RaccoonGrrrl]

This make me want to play Chrono Cross again. Ahhh The Dead Sea.

[@coconuthead1361]

Funny enough, I'm replaying Bioshock Infinite right now.

[@Morganscat]

I love how much you all do every time to surpass your content and enlighten people in so many ways with so many different contents, thank you. Keep being so awesome!

[@archygrey9093]

@0:56 Thats not a spoiler, that is a wing.

[@Ajc-ni3xn]

Bake like a fireman on 4th of July is a horrifying sentence

[@ToxicWaffle183]

The patrons not being called in the same order threw me off for some reason

[@TheDreadedHope]

The current theory on Muti verse bubbles is that there is just so much energy out there that when a choice is made and it splits Half of this enormous amount of energy is still an insane amount.X_x

[@shawnheatherly]

A nice way to summarize a complicated subject.

[@totalynotcatherine]

Me, peacefully sitting here, in my underwater salon, getting my gills painted while watching this: Oooo, they don't know a single thing.

[@AK_14564]

In a parallel bubble-universe the extra credit's video is actually about game design

[@OuterRing]

Hello from the alternate dimension! I hope your guys 2020 is also going as great as in ours is!

[@averyroberts8503]

(Distant screaming) you know, you might just wanna go back to your dimension (ambulance noises)

[@peppermint13me]

Did you know? The Schrodingher's cat experiment was not meant to prove but disprove quantum physics? It almost worked for me, I was like "it doesn't mean the cat is both dead and alive, it just means that we don't know what state it is in". But then I thought of particles as 3 dimensional fluctuations within the fabric of space-time. The fluctuations have epicenters and the epicenters can move about the fabric of space-time. The fluctuations spread out across the universe infinitely, interacting with other epicenters. The epicenters can merge and split. When I thought about particles like that, I finally understood quantum physics.

[@KasumiRINA]

"Fluctuations quantum incognito infinitely epicenters space-time loquaciousness sesquipedalian particles! I UNDERSTAND QUANTUM PHYSICS" You could have smoked a joint with the same effect. What's up with people pulling theories out of their ass and pretending to be smart?

[@PregnantOrc]

Taking old man Booker and showing him into the baptism makes about as much sense as putting the cat corpse back into the box and claiming that the cat is back to its quantum state.

[@mickeyodunikan1712]

You should make this into a series

[@evilanagram]

Honestly, I never had problems with the quantum multiverse theory in the game. The thing I struggled with was the idea posited by Bioshock Infinite that black people fighting to be free from horrific oppression are exactly as villainous as the people oppressing them. What the hell made them think that was a good idea?

[@shadowmaydawn]

The main issue with the multiverse stuff is that it isn't really explored that much. We only travel to two different realities in the whole game, with the ending being the exception. And in those times it has no real impact on the story. It also conflicts with the main plotline as determinism can not really be applied to a reality where a personal choice can spawn multiple universes.

[@JustinWahlne]

Dude this is crazy! I was just thinking about Bioshock Infinite like less than an hour ago. Then I get home and BAM! This is in my sub box! Weird.

[@angelrodriguez6292]

The video is great but there just one thing you forgot to add , it's how the quantum multiverse is also base off the many worlds interpretation.

[@issacthompson330]

I imagine the Quantum Multiverse as an infinite solid state in 11 or more dimensions. This would fix the problem of creating energy and the perception of time is just movement along one dimension. Also how I have freewill in this idea is we do not know what universe we are in as the differences have not been observed yet.

[@AkaiAzul]

You'll never know which universe you're in until you observe it and collapse the probability.

[@hauat1180]

In a parallel universe the chapters are named "how does this works?" or "thanks for watching"

[@kumakun17]

Schrodinger's Coin..huh, explains why the Major says he 'called heads' in Hellsing Abridged

[@RaunienTheFirst]

USB sticks are actually 4 dimensional. Insert: wrong way round Rotate 180° clockwise: wrong way round Rotate 180° clockwise: right way round!

[@whathanul5798]

Schrodinger's USB might actually work better or worse depending on how many times you attempt to get the USB plugged in. I bet there are a lot of people who don't get it till the 3rd attempt. *Plug in, fail, flip, plug in, fail, stare at the end and outlook, flip, plug in, succeed.

[@soul1d]

Constants and Variables. Constants the Laws of physics, variables how individuals react under said laws moment to moment.

[@tauIrrydah]

Matter and energy ARE randomly and spontaneously created all the time but tend to annihilate each other in the quantum foam.

[@nicholasgawler-collins5754]

Cool video!

[@jamcdonald120]

I like schrodingsers glass my self, the cup is either half full or half empty and you have no idea which

[@pauladriaanse]

Hm, I remember physicists talking about the possibility of creating multiverses non the less, iirc something along the lines of the absolute amount decreasing but the relative quantity staying the same . . . It was a while back so I'm not sure

[@theangryfinger5795]

But Booker... you've already been. Also alt line. My particles simply refuse to be observed.

[@JBX07]

I was utterly confused by Bioshock Infinite until this video explained it to me. I truly wasn't clever enough for what a clever game Bioshock Infinite was.

[@mikezheng33]

I like to think that death and reloading in games is a form of quantum immortality

[@jagvillani338]

If you wanted to tie this in to an Extra Sci-Fi episode, a good read would be "The Garden of Forking Paths," written in 1941 by Jorge Luis Borges.

[@jamminkeys]

I never played it, but the plot description is reminding me of that show Fringe, good stuff :)

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Ever turned a USB around three times before it plugged in? They are even 4th Dimensional!

[@paulchapman8023]

When a tear forms in a shared wall between two bubbles, don’t they just fuse into a bigger bubble?

[@Alverant]

My theory is that there are already a nigh-infinite number of universes that reflect all the different ways matter/energy/spacetime can exist and the "probability waves" are just how they diverge from each other. In other words, you can have two universes that are identical UNTIL the USB stick is checked and from that point forward they are different in all the ways stemming from it being right-side up or not.

[@danieleaken6138]

I'm definitely stealing this for my DnD game

[@hiddentruth1982]

that's where I think Schrodinger's cat fails. it give an a or b option. while yes there is an a or b there is also a c or d or e. say you had 2 boxes in front of you. your options wouldn't be just opening either box. you could open none or take a step in any direction or wave your hands in the air or scream. anything you could do including dying at that second would split off in to an alternate reality. that's not even the extent of it because everyone around you has alternate realities too that affect your alternate realities.

[@frozeneevee]

the quantum stuff in Bioschok was always confusing for me, I just took the approach of point me in the direction of the bad guys and I'll do the rest

[@bifurioussiren]

thank you!!!

[@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998]

the usb example didn't work because until observed or until attempting to plug it in, it'll always be in the incorrect state

[@dylanleboff4395]

Great content keep it up

[@andrewenderfrost8161]

USB memory actually uses quantum states of electrons to store data! It's way too complicated for a KZbin comment so Google it! (Specifically google SSD because USB will just get the example in the video)

[@randompastahandle]

You guys should have made the video as if we lived in an underwater sociaty and ended by saying "if you happen to be vewing this from a land demention"

[@TopsideCrisis346]

Kinda want to watch an episode of Heckstra Credits... Kinda remember what happened the last time a human listened to a talking snake. 😱

[@Chssmius]

That reference at 1:00.

[@michaelbushee3968]

So, weird logic thought: from the frame of reference of any observer, no matter or energy is created/destroyed when a new universe is created, right? It doesn't matter which side of the fork the observer is on, the result is the same. Nothing is being created ex nihilo, so on some incredibly pedantic logic that only works in one direction, the Many-Worlds interpretation can still hold. If I'm wrong, please explain why.

[@davidgustavsson4000]

No, this is right. Many worlds is one of many quantum hypotheses that are essentially equivalent (at least until we can figure out some rigorous way to tell them apart).

[@TheHct123]

5:51 I wonder who discovered quantum mechanics in Textra Credits universe? ... it was Y'allpole

[@DragoSonicMile]

Long story short, Schrödinger's cat experiment was mocking somebody else for being absolutely ludicrous. We do not have the means to observe infinite universes without inherently disrupting said universes. I can't believe I'm agreeing with Dragon Age: Inquisition's Solas, but it "renders this entire discussion academic."

[@eevee2962]

1:25 hecc credits

[@alin_ilies]

nice ending!

[@kishinasura1504]

Do one about Funny Valentine's D4C now!!

[@KnightsofGaming2016]

I both love and hate multiverses. Like there's so many possibilities to explore

[@everfire6002]

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[@TheJacobG]

So how does USB-C fit into Schrodinger's USB Drive experiment?

[@aliceanderson5154]

So... It's really a Multiversal Serial Bus.

[@astanex4662]

What does TC stand for in the Cowboy Universe?

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

That USB conundrum is kinda outdated. USB-C, BABY!!!!

[@TycoonTitian01]

Mat said frendo

[@Marcus-yn7wc]

This is great

[@HumanityAsCode]

All that buildup for a quick "Nah, it's not accurate because matter and energy cannot come from nothing"

[@Corbald]

Posting a second comment, all on it's own, to clear up some issues from another thread that's a mess. Yes, Schrodinger invented his Cat idea to ridicule the Copenhagen Interpretation, as well as the later Many Worlds Interpretation, but it has since been shown experimentally that there's a very good chance that it all works as he described, at least at the level of very small things. Superposition is a well accepted model, and he was, it turns out, quite wrong in his denial, but not his 'ridiculous' example of how it would work. The big thing that neither he, nor his contemporaries, understood, is the exact definition of an 'observer.' Turns out that the material of the box, the air in the box, the mechanism of the detector and the cat it's-self are all 'observers,' so become entangled. As far as we know, all interacting parts of the Universe are both Entangled and Observers, simultaneously, it's only when you (mostly) isolate some system from interactions, perhaps via a vacuum and Faraday cage, while super cooling it, that you can observe any sort of superposition. We have proven that it works, both experimentally and practically, as without the basic concept being true, many things, from lasers to quantum computers, would be impossible. Now, is that to say that the Many Worlds Interpretation is true? No. It's no more or less likely than that the solution to the Universal Wave Function is a sort of 'Ground Truth'. But our experiments in isolating things... in isolating bits of the Wave Function from it's-self, seem to indicate that there is no 'preferred' solution, or that there isn't One Reality, but that _all_ of the possibilities are 'expressed' in their own framework. In other words, it would appear that the mechanism for detecting which 'Universe' you are in is so wrapped up in the Wave Function that it can't be differentiated... In other, other words, Collapse doesn't occur, but instead is it's-self only one probability out of an infinite set. If you limit the Possibilities of a particle to two, out of infinity, and checked both 'time lines' mathematically, _both_ of them include the same results which declare themselves the 'Ground Truth'. While none of that proves Many Worlds, I find it the simpler, more elegant solution. It only requires that the Multiverse be a single crystal of Block Time, which we already suspect (yes free will is OK in Block Time, deterministic Universes), and that the collapse of the Wave Function be local and relative, both of which check with 'normal' science, anyway. If _Space and/or Time_ are infinite, then it stands to reason that Probability is too, which makes sense. You have all of Possibility, expressed, and are only navigating through it, and only from -your- point of view. Interestingly, this means that you are immortal. I'll see you die, but you can't experience anything past the point of your demise, so (like in Star Trek transporters) you can only continue experiencing in Universes in which you did not die! Google 'Quantum Suicide' for more details, but the overwhelming likelihood is that each of us will learn, in time, that we appear to be immortal, and that we can't seem to die. Others will experience our deaths, and we'll experience theirs, because experiencing is still possible for that observer in that Universe, but we can't experience our own deaths. If the Multiverse is infinite, or even if only Space and/or Time are infinite (google 'how far away is a parallel Earth', you may not even need Many Worlds to be immortal), then there are an infinite number of *You*, and all variations of *You*, including those Yous who didn't have a heart attack, or die to a meteor, or catch the plague, or whatever. Effectively, the instant of your death 'prunes' the tree of your many-fold existence of experiential data, for you. 1% of 1% of 1% of Infinity is still Infinity. No matter how unlikely it is for you to live forever, that possibility must be expressed if there are Infinite variations of You. Infinite volume inevitably leads to infinite repetition and infinite variation of that volume's contents, regardless of whether it's Space, Time, Probability or something else. All you have to have to assure an infinite You, is that the Universe contain at least one other Infinity, of some sort, in which data can be expressed.

[@EMBer3000]

If everything in our universe is simply manifestations of ripples in a underlying reality then splitting a timeline would be as simple as a wave splitting in two at an obstacle. The wave has lost nothing and gained nothing but is now two different entities with no connection to each other.

[@McRusen]

It's Schrödinger's cat/coin, though. :)

[@BotchanToni]

I can imagine that, in some alternate universe, the viewers of the Extra Physics KZbin channel are baffled by the sudden increase of video game content.

[@roun4878]

With the USB Stick, the next layer is that when you try to plug it in and it doesn't work, you try it the other way, and it still doesn't work, you go back to the first way and then it works. What is that????

[@garybarber2152]

Well, in this theory, what if all parallel realities begin at a single point: the beginning of the universe. And they all end at a single point: the end of the universe. That would make all parallel realities part of a closed system. When you travel from one reality to the other, you are not creating a new universe, and all the energy and matter therin: all possible outcomes of all possible probabilities were created upon the birth of the universe, and you have simply reached the appropriate spot on your journey from the start point to the end point and can take another pathway.

[@liamladewig511]

Great video!

[@MythicGirl2210]

(I have no degree in this stuff so obviously there's no reason why I'd be right), but I think that alternate universes are, in a way, the same as Shrodinger's cat: they're exactly the same until observed different. So, if you have 3 or 4 parallel universes exactly the same as each other existing in the same plane at the same time... are there really 4 (as opposed to 1)? In my mind, they are the same universe existing on different "frequencies" (if the multiverse is like a radio), until one difference in decisions makes them branch off into something *_notably_* more-different than the mirror universes that they was being compared to before...

[@chriskopp1361]

There is always a lighthouse.

[@carlose4314]

Extra Physics when?

[@subanark]

I always find the whole "parallels universes differ based on decisions", while nice for narrative, much less representative of what happens. The different universes are more based on random chance than a "free will" decision.

[@christiandauz3742]

I guess in an existence filled with countless Parallel and Alternate Timeless the most important thing is deciding what to do with your time Lest Darkness Fall and Crossover Series have their own answers

[@subanark]

@@christiandauz3742 In my view the vast majority of near by universes are almost identical to ours. Because of this any attempt to cross over won't work due to each universe blocking the others attempt through perfect interference.

[@christiandauz3742]

@@subanark Many timelines are vastly different from ours One timeline didn't have the Bronze Age Collapse but instead the Bronze Age Industrialization so by 1100 BCE they are more advanced than we are Another timeline is changed by the arrival of a futuristic time traveler that creates a modern nation in Britain in the year 5000 BCE resulting in a unified humanity by 4800 BCE and space colonization a century after

[@OurHeroXero]

If arrive at a fork in the road...and having equal likelihood of traveling down either...There would theoretically exist a universe where I traverse either road. However, as soon as I pick a path...the other universe would cease to exist...because I've observed myself traveling down one road the instant I take that first step.

[@bobbrown8661]

One thing to remember, There's always a lighthouse 🙃😟

[@corbettcappon6220]

I'd probably prefer more videos on video game design, and fewer on the science behind video games, personally. But that's just me. Y'all can feel free to keep doin what you're doin if it's what you're passionate about and / or it's what lots of other folks like.

[@nekotv809]

And when you drop your phone we call that the schrodinger's screen cose untill you pick it up again its both craked and intact

[@fetzjorgensen601]

We can't create something from nothing thus creating a new universe every time a split was made is unlikely. But what if all these infinite realities exist simultaneously already? An infinite number of realities where things are exactly the same up until a divergence takes place?