Quantum Suicide
- Quantum Suicide
The experiment says that a physicist stands in front of a gun that is triggered by the radioactive decay of an atom, [Upon each pull of the trigger], the universe is split into two separate ones: a universe in which the physicist lives and the other where he dies, meaning that, whatever the outcome of the process, the conscious being is immortal.
—Gabriel Gache, Softpedia
the boys at Princeton have founda way for us all to live foreverand what you must dois point a gun at yourselfand fire it and waitfor the universe to split.
if you die in one,you will still livein another—they sayyou goyour whole lifeunaware of your other lives in other universes,and in thisquantum slice,i am askingwhyit is this life:whyi am herein this body,in this time.in one universe i nurse [End Page 21] a girl baby with black hair;in another i amashin early snow. [End Page 22]
Alyse Knorr is an alum of Elon University and is currently pursuing her MFA at George Mason University, where she will teach composition this fall. Her writing has been published in Dark Sky Magazine, The Avatar Review, and more than a dozen newspapers across the country.
