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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 30 May 2011 04:26:47PM 17 points [-]

The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-tester isn't involved in any existing technology as far as I know, but it has apparently been verified in a lab and violates intuitions on how the world is supposed to work at the level of basic logic. ("Stuff that didn't happen can't matter.")

Comment author: magfrump 01 June 2011 01:23:07AM 2 points [-]

I would say this means "'anthropics' (i.e. branch selection effects) is relevant to the physical world, not just people."

Comment author: jimmy 30 May 2011 06:02:32PM *  2 points [-]

"Stuff that didn't happen can't matter."

Or you can just accept that did happen

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 31 May 2011 12:12:18AM 1 point [-]

thank you for the link. that is so awesome.

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