shminux comments on False vacuum: the universe playing quantum suicide - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 January 2013 05:04PM

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Comment author: shminux 09 January 2013 07:35:15PM 9 points [-]

Let me just note that you don't need anything exotic like false vacuum for a setup like that, your garden-variety radioactive decay is no different. Your problem is equivalent to being a Schrodinger's cat.

Comment author: DanielLC 10 January 2013 05:42:49AM 3 points [-]

Radioactive decay could happen without killing you. False vacuum is all-or-nothing.

Comment author: shminux 10 January 2013 05:39:40PM 1 point [-]

Not if

Your problem is equivalent to being a Schrodinger's cat.