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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Weird timeline...

I mean I wonder how humanity even survived coldwar...

Heard of Vasily Arkhipov? Stannislav Petrov? What if they weren't there. Someone else was in control?

We's be dead.

How the fuck does humanity even exist. Like dozens of "close calls" jesus christ.

My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that "running away" incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.

Sometimes... I wonder if there's a "plan" for me... if "god" exists... maybe the universe doesn't let me die.

Like some pre-destination thing. Like how in time travel shows, someone tries to commit suicide but it fails because they are alive in the future so its impossible to die in the past. Like Steins;Gate with Okabe. Or like Final Destination where deaths have to happem in order...

it's "not my time to die" yet... so death doesn't let me die till its time.

Just a theory... 🤷‍♂️

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that “running away” incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.

From a quantum theory, wave function collapse perspective, that's as good a theory as any, and it's also one that that personally subscribe to.

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

What do you mean by wave function collapse?

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Basically it's related to the uncertainty principle; the cat is both alive and dead until you look inside the box.

Let's say i'm about to roll a dice. The result of that dice throw is in a state of superposition until it's thrown. Meaning that until it is thrown, all results exist. And it's only when the dice is thrown and the result is observed that the wave function collapses to a number from 1 thru 6.

From there, there are two camps of scientists:

One camp believes that all other superpositions dissipate once the roll is made. So if you roll a one, then the universes in which you rolled a 2 thru 6 just kind of evaporate, for example.

The Second camp that believes that all superpositions exist, and branch off into 6 different universes (one where each number was rolled) and they all continue unaware of the other universes existence (Multiverse theory)

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

Are you sure? This doesn't sound right

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Science is never "sure". And I'm not a quantum physicist. But that's the gist of it, yes. I'm not smart enough to know all the details though.

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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Heard of Vasily Arkhipov? Stannislav Petrov?

Jeez. I can't believe history doesn't teach us of these people. I just read how they prevented what would probably have been nuclear anihilation.

My theory is there are 100s of timelines where humanity nuked itself. 100s of timelines where I was never born, or got kidnapped during that “running away” incident, or got murdered by my brother during a fight, or died of suicide.

Hell, those timelines could've been on different planets with completely different human equivalents. It's not even too science - fiction to believe that, it's fully reasonable.

Like Steins;Gate with Okabe

Saw that whole series. It was really, really good. I was fully invested by the end haha.

Maybe this whole time since the "beginning" of the world we've just been trying to not wipe ourselves out in war.