Re: Parallel universes and Shroedinger's cat

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:26:32 +1000


At 01:10 AM 12/30/96 +0100, Eivind Berge wrote:
> Then you ran the experiment again, umpteen times, and observed
>that you are still alive. If the many-worlds theory is true, you will
>always survive in one of the "new" universes, with knowledge of your
>history of good luck.

Something like this happens to the protagonist in Greg Egan's terrific first
novel QUARANTINE.

In my novella `Schro:dinger's Dog', sometimes (quite rarely, it's true) when
you open the box you find not a live cat or a dead cat but a-- (woof)

Damien Broderick