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No matter how likely your death is, there will always be a version of you that survives. At least according to one of the most bizarre interpretations of quantum mechanics, known as Quantum Immortality.

Can science prove that you are unkillable? And does this mean our reality is split into an endless number of copies?

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Surviving A Nuke With Quantum Mechanics

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Arthur Robillard

...almost, but not quite,... entirely unlike tea.

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What I don't understand is, supposed that you try the nuke. And it goes off. That would not disprove many worlds. Karl Popper defined scientific theories as theories that can be disproved. How would you disprove many worlds?