On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:28 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a modest proposal, it's a low tech way to find out once and for all > if the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is correct, and as > a side effect make you rich. First you buy one Powerball lottery ticket, > the next drawing of the winning number is at 11pm tonight. Then make a > simple machine that will monitor the internet and pull the trigger on a 44 > magnum aimed at your head at exactly 11.01pm UNLESS yours is the winning > ticket. If Many Worlds is correct your subjective experience can only be > that at 11.01pm, despite 80 million to one odds stacked against you, a > miracle occurs and the gun does not go off and you're rich beyond the > dreams of avarice. After that as you fly on your private jet to your > private island you can contemplate the fact that you are the only person in > the world who knows the true nature of reality and knows it with absolute > certainty. And it only cost you a few hundred dollars to make the machine, > the most expensive part being the gun itself. > > Of course for every universe you're rich in there are 80 million in which > your friends watch your head explode, but that's a minor point, your > consciousness no longer exists in any of those worlds so you never have to > see the mess; somebody else will have to clean up the thousands of itty > bitty bits of brain splattered all over the room, it's their problem not > yours. > > It's been tried: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/90QNXd9Q9bk/vbvGBDB_EssJ Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUiKeg_%2ByFkvNQgiHC1X9UaQ_DLxZHPm3yXMDaJRk%3DXYQw%40mail.gmail.com.
