>>19481219Btw this arises out of the Shroedinger's cat paradox, which you can brush up on if you aren't familiar with.
You sort of follow it out and say that all unobserved states exist simultaneously in all their potential states and only collapse when observed. So if you are some sort of spiritual cosmic "pilot" external to this state collapse, you could "steer" between potential universes.
There's no evidence that anything works this way, it's just a fun thing that people enjoy thinking about.
Lao Tzu says:
>The Dao which can be spoken is not the Eternal DaoMeaning, the things we have to describe this universe are not the universe itself. The greater Whole is bigger than the words we can make to describe it (inferred: because those words are merely a part of the whole Dao).
So, while it would be cool if quantum mechanics was real (keep in mind, for quantum mechanics to be a complete theory, it must be "complete" this is one of the rules of QM, there can be no hidden variables) -- it is also very likely that it is not complete and therefor totally useless and all this shit that we derive from it like thought experiments about undead cats and multiverses are pure fucking nonsense.
