Hi, Joe, I had an 84 year-old friend of mine watch one of your videos. It was the episode about A.I. He is totally hooked on your channel. He now calls me up and says things like, " Hey, have you watched the ones about Mars?", etc, etc. Only thing- I think it's given him severe case of Future FOMO!
I've never heard about this before, however after my accident on the interstate where I was ejected from my truck doing roughly 110mph, I obviously lived but while I was in my wheelchair a month or 2 after the wreck I came up with this exact idea on my own. I tried to explain to a few people that I thought this had happened, and all it did was make people look at me funny
Same here. I got really sick and had the same experience. I’m still trying to make sense of it and think about it everyday. In searching the topic I came across this video…
14:00 "what ever reality you live in, there will always be people trying to hack you". Wrong! According to the many worlds interpretation, there will be a reality where no one hacks you
This is real. I’m convinced. About 3 years ago, I “woke back up” after going completely unconscious and smashing my face into the sidewalk from what should have been a sudden fatal pulmonary embolism. Ever since then, and well before I’ve ever heard of this theory, I’ve felt that I died that day and literally everything about my life since that experience has felt “surreal” to me.
You're not alone, I was in an accident 2 years ago on a bridge where I should've been dead.. Lost consciousness and everything but woke back up with the car all smokey and nothing but a huge bump on my head and a shattered knee.
I have a cat named Schrodinger because for the first three months after he wiggled his way into our basement and we shut off the exit we never really saw him. We inferred his presence from the disappearing food and the offerings in the litterbox.
... but did the tree really fall or what ? Anyway, y'all got the cat's name wrong ... It's 'Spooky'. ... or was it all three superimposed names at the same time ? I'm so confused now. - I'm sorry, this video is so f... boring, I just had to doodle something. Btw, have y'all ever seen a protein complex walk along a microtubule spindle ? Life is stranger than quasi-reality. Ok, bye.
Whenever I think about the times one of my kids had an accident, sometimes my fault, I think about the other thems that died and the mes mourning them.
Yep turned a power socket recently (massive bang) jumped out of my skin and had that exact thought? Did I die? Not from my perspective. This is the crux of it. The oldest person is about 125 years old now following the logic of quantum immortality will they be 130 then 140 then 200 then 300 and thinking from there perspective what the hell? I don't know if that is the worst thought of all in trillions of universes you dont make it to 9 months and in Trillions of others you never die and just go on forever?
I had an experience over a year ago where I died, and I saw a literally endless web/network of my life; past, present, future, and all the endless permutations. For every time that I've had a near-death experience, a version of me DID die, and everyone in that reality dealt with the aftermath of that. For me, however, my consciousness continued its path as a "close call". This was before I really dove into quantum mechanics, and came to understand what the experience was from a scientific point of view. It's not that there's a "better" me out there, because every possible me exists at every moment in and out of time. I'm just experiencing the current me, because the way our consciousness exists is due to passing through time, and observing the movement of particles in the universe. Any other consciousness that's interfacing with the body I'm in is not another me, in the same way that a clone is not another me; it's a completely different being. After that experience, for the next day or so, it was like my brain was only passively controlling my body, and it took a while to reconnect and feel grounded. In the interim, I was still the consciousness that is me, but I had no memories. I was existing in the moment, and it seems now that the only reason I feel like "myself" is the memories associated with my body, and the experience I had feels like it was something I imagined, except that I make a huge effort to journal my dreams and unusual experiences, and in the same way that re-reading a dream journal can bring back memories of being in that dream, re-reading my journal from that experience reminded me of what happened. I'm not saying that we each exist in our own world, where the only thing that matters is ourselves, because everyone alive in the world is a consciousness, and is just as valuable or invaluable or real as I am. We barely understand our universe, and as we begin to learn more about quantum physics and expand our view on the universe and study dimensions that we can only comprehend mathematically, we'll come to understand more not only about ourselves, but the relationships and connections that we share to things larger than ourselves.
Large doses of psychedelics give the same experience of the time illusion falling apart and living multiple concurrent versions of reality. Really makes you go hmmm and not take shiz too seriously...
I can't tell you how much I relate to the topics you post and the way you tell things. Every question that pops up in my brain, you answer. You explain things in an easy and intuitive way. I'm glad I finally found the perfect channel to watch while I eat.
Very true @Saeed Sharif. The reason electrons don't travel at light speed is because they have mass. A requirement for something to travel at light speed is that it be massless. I think Joe might've been thinking of photons which are massless and do travel at the speed of light although they don't travel through time.
He was almost certainly thinking of photons when he said that. Electrical signals move through our printed circuit boards at about 70% of _c_, although the individual electrons don't move anywhere near that fast.
I find it interesting that in my dreams I often interact with relatives who are no longer alive. The strange thing is that there does seem to be a parallel existence I enter with events that follow a different timeline over several nights sleep. I have a scientific background so tend to think this is all just imagination but find it fascinating nonetheless.
I have often felt as though while I'm dreaming I'm peering into other realities. Like you, while dreaming, I will have days (sometimes weeks) when I feel like I'm in the same one. Sometimes years later I'll dream and "revisit" some which feel familiar, meaning I can vividly remember dreaming of them previously. It's an incredibly odd feeling when, while awake, events mirror those I've witnessed in my dreams...especially when I can recall having dreamed such events, and at the time of said dream, those types of possibilities seemed impossible/improbable. Dreams truly are a very strange part of the human experience.
I have a map in my extremely vivid dreams that consists of places I know and those that I don't have any recognition of. It's creeping me out because I've been having dreams in this map since childhood. I feel like those places shouldn't be connected in one particular way. As much as I love science and I study engineering, I had multiple "prophetic" dreams so I genuinely think dreams have access to something beyond earth. Also I very often wake up at 3:33 by seeing scary creatures in my dream, i really don't like it, especially since my grandma and her daughter (my aunt) have exactly same problem.
@@rubyiskira8939 I don't get nightmares very often and I sympathise with you because it can't be pleasant at all to experience them regularly. I used to be certain nothing existed beyond our realm but I had my heart stop for 20 seconds a few year back and had a rushing into the sky sensation while I was unresponsive. It could just be an oxygen starved brain but I was surprised I still felt a form of consciousness while it happened.
@@Mr.CliffysWorld Funnily enough we used to have a team of people doing the washing up of beakers etc for us (always rinsed any acids etc away before they collected them of course). I was a chemistry technician in a company that manufactured culture media actually but moved into IT in 1987 so don't test me on the periodic table because I don't remember much about it.
since memories are (in theory) part of the 3 dimensional configuration of your brain's particles, your consciousness also would probably never notice if you one day died in your sleep and woke up in some radically different version of your life. different job, different house, different family, different body, and your consciousness still shouldn't miss a beat, because all the memories it would have access to would say "this makes sense."
Love this concept. I manage to read too few books each year and this year I completed a cool book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It uses this concept to mess with your mind and play with your emotion. Definitely recommend for you Joe. Even though, the more knowledge you have on a subject, the less you are likely to enjoy it the way I did probably. But in at least 1 universe out there, you'll enjoyed the book.
Yes, just explained this to my wife when it came up. Electrons only move less than an inch per second but the electrical potential moves through a circuit much faster, but still nothing like light speed. And with an AC current the potential switches to and fro before the electron has time to move very far, so it really does little more than vibrate a little in the oscillating electric field converting electrical energy into heat and light.
That depends on how they've been accelerated. You can accelerate at electron with a powerful laser and achieve very close to the speed of light for example. It all depends on the energy available to accelerate it.
He may be the first person to directly address the multiverse with such intention, it stirred an emotional response in me but maybe i'm oversharing now.. lol
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.” ― Terry Pratchett, Mort
I see it this way, and I should say I came up with this when trying to argue how pre determined fate is possible at the same time we have free will. Then I saw a video on the many worlds theory and I said yes! Like that. Imagine a tree a very large tree with almost infinite branches. All leading down to the trunk. To me the trunk is the one thing we all end up experiencing, the inevitable death. We are born at the tips of the branches of out tree. This is our tree and our tree alone. It interweaves with other trees but this one is just for us. Every part of the tree works it’s way down to the trunk some paths are short some are long. Every decision is a branch that converges down. It is all rewritten and planned. Since every possible outcome is there. Yet we chose the path we take. There is a path in which I didn’t write his and a path of your where you didn’t read this. Our consciousness is immaterial and not made of matter, since it has no mass it can freely travel faster than the speed of light. I imagine that we are everywhere experiencing all possibilities at once and when we make a decision the wave form collapses on one of our branches and our consciousness is there. The other us are there but they are not us we are not a physical form we are consciousness we are a spirit. Free will and predetermined fate. It’s been a few years since I thought this through and never wrote it down so this is a little jumbled.
@@damyr It's a simple way of showing support that doesn't harm anybody. A greater phenomenon Joe should do a video on is; why some people feel the need to interject and put down others for no reason, thinking their opinion is the one that matters without realizing the pure hypocrisy of their statement.
@@adis95 That's pretty self-explanatory for those who can actually think. Because normal people are fascinated with adults who have brain of a 4 year old child. But because you're such type of person, I can understand your confusion.
I always had this feeling that experiencing déjà vu was my remembering something another me had already experienced in another universe - as I was experiencing it.
I've been a subscriber for awhile now, donated to you Patreon too. While I was recovering from an illness your videos kept my bed bound mind a little more focused. You've helped to inspire me to go back to school after beating leukemia for microbiology. Thank you. Hope you keep making great videos.
OMG.. I've 100% experienced this but I never had anyone to talk to about it or any way to explain it. I went through a horrible time where i, to my shame, attempted suicide in various ways.. and yet, against all odds, i somehow survived, completely unharmed... when there was nearly zero chance to. I have always believed I DID actually die, but somehow shifted to a state where I did not. To further clarify.. my first attempt was crossing 6 lanes of rush-hour, Manhattan traffic with my eyes closed. I even opened my eyes once and saw cars barelling down towards me. No cars honked. No cars hit their brakes or screeched. It was, in fact, eerily quiet.. and i was forced to open my eyes when i tripped on the opposite curb, untouched. The highway was the West Side highway near Battery Park City.. check for yourself if I could have survived crossing it with my eyes closed during evening rush hour traffic moving at maximum speed. More oddly, I have vague memories of being struck several times by different cars during the event.
@@polythewicked lol. I actually checked again and it was 10 lanes. Man that highway was huge. Smh. I'll tell you what.. when I was 6 years old i had a lot of trouble understanding when to use "ie" or "ei". To that end, when we took a class trip to the library.. i made it a point to ask the librarian (easier to ask since she didn't know me), using the Berenstein books, to explain it to me. It was a 15 minute conversation about why it was Berenstein and not Berenstien. A conversation that wouldn't have happened if there was an A there, but most definitely did happen.. and yet.. So yes i definitely believe something is happening. Has been happening... maybe all along.
Yikes. So not only did you put your life in danger but someone else’s and all you can say is that you experienced something, no fault or care in the world for other people. Your ego and apathy makes me sad the first time it didn’t go through. How selfish of an act to try and kill others for your asinine desire.
@@ViburaBlanca is it normal in your world to have someone speak to you and hear nothing they say? You want me to feel bad about the accident i DIDN'T cause? Or potentially caused in another dimension (ignoring the fact that if i did indeed cause one and multiple dimensions exist then every outcome is inevitable)...? Let me guess.. You're a flat-earther, too?
@@nookleer that fact that you base your carelessness on a theory is borderline mental. Who are you to even remotely justify this. Did or didn’t you did it, and you almost claimed the lives of an innocent family, a doctor, a nurse, etc. Thats a twisted viewpoint, and its not funny. I’m glad you mentioned manhattan because I’m thousands of miles away for psychopaths like you. And even further out here in the country. You think of people as lab rats for your dumb theory and its sick, you need help.
Just wanted to say thanks for your channel. I began watching just as I was entering the toughest time of my life and it's been a great source of comfort through ti all. Thanks again.
Do you know what I LOVE about your music bro?? The absence of background music! It’s truly sets you apart from 90% of videos I watch/listen to and tell you the truth, it’s wayyyyyyt better to me. Keep it up. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Whats crazy is I've been thinking about this myself. I've had a few too many near death experiences to just be that lucky. As in impossibly lucky. Which has had me wondering exactly what was talked about in this video. That you just experience the version that you some how survive in. Like a river that only the forks that continue will have a flow. You will just naturally go down the longest part of that flowing river because it will have the strongest current. Or maybe I'm just trying to rationalize the irrational. It at least makes more sense then a higher power looking out for me like others say.
This reminds me of the movie The Prestige, where the magician uses a device that duplicates (or splits) him, and one copy gets displaced over a bit spacially while the other falls through a trap door into a tank of water and drowns. The one that survives would have a memory of an increasingly long chain of displacements and survivals.
I'm skeptical about the experiment where you always survive. It seems like it would accelerate the development of consciousness. Consciousness could never die. But if we look at nature, consciousness is rare.
I agree. One where my Nannie, one of my aunts, and my husband is still with me and one where I did not get in an accident and have my leg amputated. I think about that sometimes actually, that in another universe, I still have both legs...
1:16 For reference: Statistically speaking, the chance of all these 60 measurements with a 50/50 chance all coming up with the same result is ~ 0.0 000 000 000 000 000 008 674%. In other words: That is a chance of 1 to 115 292 504 606 846 976. That's over 115 quadrillion.
Canadian Snowflake yeah I agree there is such a place where phones should not be. The bathroom is it. Too many dropped phones into toilets or water vapor in the air ruining the internals or accidental photos taken at inopportune times. Not saying all of these things have happened to me just saying. There is a place where phones don’t belong.
Ive had the feeling several times in my life during very big decisions and life/death scenarios that my "self" split in half and the other half of me took the other route.
There is a book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It is a Sci-fi novel that deals with the multi world theory and the end of it sent me into a existential crisis and made me ask so many of these questions.
All of this makes perfect sense once you realize that our consciousness is what generates physical reality. Our observation causing the wave form to collapse is the actual process of our consciousness turning away from the other potential "realities" and choosing the one it prefers.
We all live in a version of reality that we believe we deserve. The struggle is to get in touch with your negative beliefs you hold about yourself. The way to shift to a more preferable reality is to take action and act and behave as if you were already there. You are not required to do a job you dont thoroughly enjoy. There is no law that says you cant be a forest ranger or a jet pilot if that is your passion. But you have to take action to make that reality come true. Your negative beliefs about yourself, your abilities, etc. is what holds you in this negative reality performing a job you hate living a life that is unsatisfactory. Your passion in life, the thing that makes you happy when you do it, that is the higher self attempting to guide you in the right direction. When you begin to follow your passion with honest intent, doors will start to open and your life will unfold in amazing ways. Remember: If life seems like you're rowing upstream, like you're going in the wrong direction, it's probably because you are. Following your passion will always seem effortless and exciting. @@ijai303
A good friend of mine died from a brain tumor eight years ago. He was a very nice man. After the funeral me and others brought up how he may be alive in a parallel world. I still miss him terribly and hope he is alive somewhere.
@@dinosaurus4189 It depends on whether your own subjective experience can rise again in another being. I just mean that, subjective experience, not memories or anything. Regardless, your current you (your personality, your memories, etc.) would be erased.
I find the wave collapse theories fascinating although sometimes it feels like theorists are jumping through alot of hoops to keep reality objective instead of subjective.
I still think it's possible to die considering there are situations that are impossible to survive, meaning you are alive until every single universe finds you dead. The only universe that exists is the one you are in and once your path is chosen the quantum events that occur cannot be revisited, meaning you are stuck where you are. This would mean if you put yourself in a situation where it is impossible to escape you will not be able to make another decision than the decision which lead you to your death. However, scarily enough, if your future [in the universe that you experience] is predetermined to only make decisions that do not lead you to death, it's possible that you are immortal.
@@dinkle9664 given the infinite, minute variations and subtle differences even the simplest choice can produce, there must be a limitless number of universes where humans have discovered immorality.
@@JacobraTheGreat I edited my response, consider the additions, also I don't disagree. I'm referring to the universe that YOU experience, not the ones that you're not seeing.
I can understand why people have trouble wrapping their head around this, but I've thought about this many times before so it seems perfectly normal to me.
@@silverywingsagain Interesting, but I'd say moot. The very next sentence is that electrons "don't experience time" at all. This only occurs at c, which electrons don't move at. Maybe he meant photons, in which case his broader idea might make sense. But then the circuit analogy wouldn't be quite as appropriate.
Almost two years ago now, I tripped down a steep flight of stairs and went down head first. I still have absolutely no idea how I didn't snap my neck. I banged myself up badly, but I didn't even end up with a head injury. I spent a couple weeks limping and recovered, but I still flashback to that moment right after tripping and right before landing where I just thought, "I'm dead." If many worlds is real, and to me it's the most logical interpretation of quantum mechanics, then there's at least a handful of worlds where I died that day. 🤢
I assume that you may die but your soul will continue living through the infinite possibilities until we all eventually die at around 120 years old. At that point our soul is put to sleep for the time being because there is nothing more for us to do right now
I assume there is a version of you that is 54086 years old and you've had uncountable heart attacks and strokes and different cancers, but by pure chance you never actually died from any of them.
Good video Joe. This subject is not easy to boil down to layman's terms but you did a good job. I recommend Sean Carroll's recently released book 'Something Deeply Hidden' for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics without getting into the equations. Sean, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology at CalTech, is a champion of the Many Worlds approach and he references Hugh Everett often in his book.
Joe, I've been a follower for years. The years I haven't been I've caught up on and really enjoy just about everything you have to say. I'm on a fixed income with disability so I've never been able to join to the full extent but always think about it when I get paid each month. Because of that I don't comment much because I kinda feel unworthy. I wish I could do more to show my appreciation. I love your shirts and they're brilliant in themselves. I go as far as watching the ads in your show all the way through to make sure that it's counted towards you. So I guess this is my thank you that's been years in the making.
The thing I liked the most about that movie is the idea that Borden was so competent at magic and making concepts of magic that even his troll machine worked when Tesla made it for Danton. I don't know if the book clarifies what the deal is with that but the movie just glosses over it. Tesla merely had to tune in the troll concept by Borden to make it work properly. I do enjoy the movie though.. Outside that issue. Nolan did a pretty good job with it. IMO.
@@theoretic7856 if it was so, the hats would not show up, and also the other cat. IMHO, the movie revolves around the concept of cruelty and horror that is hidden behind a trick, just to have a wondrous experience. Also, the horrorific message is that this is also embedded in the fabric of reality.
@@pierluigidipietro8097 So are you saying that borden's concept was perfect even though he thought it was a joke or that tesla just created his own machine and if so why did it look so much like bordens concept art? I'm not trying to figure out what the story means to the people or what the author was trying to convey. I just like to think that Borden had such a firm grasp on magical concepts that he was able to make/invent something amazing by accident. The story makes sure to tell us he's just as good as Cutter at the hardware side of magic. His flaw was in showmanship. I'm not looking for the philosophy of the characters or the lesson being taught because everyone takes different things from movies. I have found that it can be very subjective and sometimes translate far from the intent of the author. Just curious if anyone else thought about the fact that Borden's machine was actually magic. Or do they think that tesla built a completely different machine.
One thing that has always bugged me about the fact that a decision makes multiple universes is that we use a very Human Centric form of decision. What is a decision in this sense? When you are procrastinating your work by commenting on a RUclips video about quantum theory you made a decision to do so. But every second of the video you make the decision to keep watching. If you need to go to the toilet you either go or not. Every time you take a step you make a decision to put your foot at the exact position you put it in and not a millimeter to the left or right. Everytime you breath or blink you technically make a decision. Does this also count for animals? What about things that aren't alive. I wouldn't call the non deterministic quantum particles that this whole thing is about alive or conscious. I can follow the many worlds explanation when you're looking at those particles that create a "new world" everytime they get locked into place, but then I get lost when this gets generalized for the decisions that we as humans make. Because does that then mean that any decision correlates 1 on 1 with a collapsing wave function? What about decisions that have many outcomes, are those many wave functions collapsing at the same time? I don't see any other way that that would make sense and that still doesn't make any sense to me.
And that is, why Sliders was such an awesome concept for a TV show and why it’s a damn shame, the producers ruined it the way they did after Season 2 🤬
Yo Joe, what's up? I just discovered your channel. Cool stuff man. And also dr strange saw only those millions cuz it takes an infinte time to run through infinite worlds.
Not true at all or Doctor Strange wouldn't have been able to view as many parallel universes as he did. He blatantly says that's the one future where they win, so he did too, in movie, check out every possible future. You seem to be forgetting they time moves differently when magic gets involved, let alone the friggin Time Stone that Strange used to expand his powers to pull off such a feat. Js.
@@nickleo7586 no he specifically said he checked 14,000,605. So..he checked a specific amount from those infinite worlds because it is you know obvious that it would take infinte time to check infinite worlds
@@eleonarcrimson858 not... With the Time Stone. But I'll give you credit, he didn't say he checked every possible future, so I was wrong there for sure. With the Time Stone he could slow down time to check on timelines. Now I'm thinking he used the time stone to extend his powers to check out as many possible futures as possible in those few mins he was hovering in the back. You can't tell me he checked over 14 billion timelines in 5 mins but that it would take infinite time to check them all... With MAGIC. You keep forgetting magic and the time stones own powers.
@@nickleo7586 no just think about it what you have to check is infinte timelines however your power is multiplied unless it is infinitly multiplied, you can't check them in more than infinte. I know how this misunderstanding come from, you are thinking about infinte as number, think of it as a state. For example even if you can run a googlplex times than the speed of light you can't escape infinity, so it is not as much as a power thing it is more of a math thing, where you can't escape or catch-up with infinity, with always one more to check, it is in ending.
@@eleonarcrimson858 you seem like you're still just viewing this from a completely physical point of view, the physics of it all, but let go of reality got a minute because magic is involved lol the time stone could allow Strange to literally stop time and take all the time he needs to, that leaves us with 2 options: either Strange DID manage to look through every possible future or Strange is a dick who didn't keep looking for futures where they win and stark lives, just long enough to find one way to win, and he would be a dick for that for not looking for other possible futures where Stark doesn't die. What a moment though, for the character, to debate whether or not to keep searching for possible futures when you've found one that coincidentally kills off a guy you blatantly don't like? Kinda puts Strange in a villainous situation if he didn't check all possible futures.
My hypothesis is that since we're all the exact same thing in the utmost fundamental level: consciousness, there's no real difference between you and me. It's just a different frame of perspective. Perhaps consciousness or sentience is the most primordial thing in existence and it "shines" through different bodies which are capable of hosting that sentience via brains. Sometimes when I look in the eye of someone and they look back at my eyes, I feel like I'm staring at myself and I'm staring me back. That's pretty mindblowing.
His idea offers the ultimate challenge. At any point in time I have individual moments in time to make choices that define who “I “ am as a human. I choose to remain conscious of the stream that promotes kindness.
I have been secretly going to every universe to kill myself so I can claim my own power for myself so I can get stronger and faster. This might make a good movie. Jet Li should be the main actor.
That sounds like it would be awesome and maybe even feature a pre-fame Jason Statham, with hair at that. I mean, with the multiverse, everything is possible lmao
This also assumes the energy of your other selves shares a collective source, otherwise that energy would just dissipate as each individual thread is cut so to speak
@@keenfire8151 I'm thinkin Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios might be interested. Idk. Your Dad is on point about the title. The One would be fitting. Definitely make sure there's a scene toward the end where ya can't tell which Jet Li is the good one, then have the good ones shirt get ripped so we can tell lol
I used to think about this a lot! But I (we heh) never knew that there was an official study and theory around it. Not to sound like a "ha I do drugs meme lord" but I genuinely used to microdose acid frequently, and occasionally take full trips, and this would always be on my mind. It's been a forethought for me ever since cleaning myself up. What if our loved ones are still living in other universes? What if all the people you interact with daily are congregating in the universe that you are in as survivors of past survive/die scenarios?
Actually the same here, but I don't do acid. but I also thought of another type of immortality, one where the infinity of time was involved. It works like this: if time is infinite, and existance had a start (which it totally had), there is absolutely no reason for existance to not exist again after a large (maybe infinite?) Amount of time? But This would also mean there were other realities before this one. Infinite even. But this would also mean there are infinite realities where I existed. I know it sounds weird but once you get it its pretty interesting.
@@Static_250 lol Arthur, there is a "joe rogan big bang theory" comedy stand up clip where he exactly puts what you said into reality as a universe reset theory xD
Something that I've wrestled with when it comes to this interpretation is that according to my loose understanding of QM, particles take all paths when in a superposition even technically impossible ones... If that were the case and we assumed that there were infinite universes exploring each path, surely the odds that ours has some particles take supposedly impossible paths would be quite good, as infinite impossible paths far outnumber those possible in our understanding. So why don't we see them if we have no effect on collapsing the waveform to something more probable?
You're forgetting interference; thinking of summing probabilities rather than complex amplitudes. That said, so far MWI has failed to justify / recover the correct calculation of the [relative] probabilities of QT (the Born rule). But even if its proponents ever do manage to convince us that they've achieved this crucial step - without it, it's not an interpretation at all! - the MWI is not an interpretation that anyone with a thorough, modern understanding of the theory should take seriously. Everett had the (partial) excuse that at the time he proposed the MWI, in the early-mid 1950s, the mathematics of QT would've still seemed mysterious. Nowadays, we can benefit from the understanding that it *is* probability theory. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/02/23/holes-in-bayesian-statistics/#comment-1249092
As a kid in middle school I remember going on crazy day dreams where I would picture and imagine a “new me” magically appearing after making any decision. That “new me” would make the opposite decision of the one I had made and he would continue living in his own universe that had no influence over mine. However once he came across making his next decision the whole thing would repeat itself and there would be a “new me” creating a third universe. While I would continue to live in my universe and create a new one with each decision. Just thinking that this was happening not only to me but to every single living person would make me realize we have no free will as we remain stuck in our universe, predetermined as to everyone make the “correct decision” and continue on the parallel universe line.. I was fucking 12 thinking this🤯
Thank you, Joe. You've succinctly put my feelings into life and death better than I could, but I believed this for years! This is the result of realizing that our consciousness, by being alive at this moment in time, means there is no time that we are not consciousness.
Joe, I loved the video., You should consider doing one about 'Is the universe infinite?' Because if so, it brings up many of the same strange concepts. Like with infinite space you have infinite possibilities, therefore if you could travel far enough you would eventually find another earth identical in every way to ours, along with another you. Basically if space is truly infinite then anything can and does exist. Sorta like the many worlds idea except they are all here in the same dimension as us existing in the same universe. Just seperated by crazy amounts of space and time.
@@shrodingerscat8940 is your name pronounced both ways when people are unsure but as soon as someone says your name the other pronunciation does not exist?😂😂😂
I absolutely love this video. I’ve been thinking about this topic for ages. It came up in my head when thinking about the copy problem with teleportation. If a copy of me thought he was me then am I really me? Am I even “me” from one moment to the next? Relieved that smarter men are working on it though we may not like the answers we find.
5. Concluding Remarks We have seen that during Schrödinger evolutions, the validity of (6) and (7) ensures that the expectation value A referred to the individual system S and its measurement device M remains constant in time. But if the rule governing the process is replaced with a law different from Schrödinger equation, the validity of conservation laws cannot be guaranteed a priori [19-24]. Ballentine points out that some theories that modify the Schrödinger equation in order to include spontaneous state reductions lead to the non-conservation of the energy [8]. Our study shows that projections induced by measurements, as they are considered in the framework of orthodox quantum mechanics, conflict with the conservation laws. However, the results of these two analyses have a difference worth noticing. In the theories Ballentine refers to, energy is continuously gained, although its magnitude is too small to be detected [8]. In collapses occurring in the framework of orthodox quantum mechanics, the change A(tf) - A(t0) is not necessarily small but, when the process of measurement of AS is repeated many times, the average of A(tf) is close to A(t0). This is why we claim that in measurement processes, conservation laws still have a statistical sense. In an approach to quantum mechanics previously formulated we have included, as an essential ingredient, a postulate that ensures the statistical sense of conservation laws in every process involving projections [25,26]. In this approach no reference to the subject or to measurement devices is made. We there assume that in nature two kinds of spontaneous processes occur: those ruled by the Schrödinger equation, which is a deterministic equation, and those ruled by the rules of probability, where projections happen. Let us conclude by pointing out that, in our view, there is nothing sacred about conservation laws. Like every oth- er scientific law, they could be false. The same is true of the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics. The intent of our contribution is to show that there is a contra- diction between these two ideas, both of which are adopted, perhaps, by the majority of physicists.
Hi, Joe, I had an 84 year-old friend of mine watch one of your videos. It was the episode about A.I. He is totally hooked on your channel. He now calls me up and says things like, " Hey, have you watched the ones about Mars?", etc, etc. Only thing- I think it's given him severe case of Future FOMO!
9:58
Everybody gangsta 'till physicists start puting emojis in equations
Good spot!
tegmark is a intellectual beast he can get away with it ;p.
Laser bass, I can see that.
i figured that was just joe messing with us lmao. half expected him to pull a "that's not bolivia" type joke
That's that new millennial math
I've thought about this alot. Combine it with the Mandela effect and it's the perfect recipe for an existential crisis.
Probably nothing at all?
that one clash of clans account u abandoned in 2014 still exists and is waiting patiently for u to log back in
@@bandaidcheerios2309 I don't play video games
Dont forget while stoned .ITS wonderful trip . For pesimist people like me
The Mandela effect is BS
I've never heard about this before, however after my accident on the interstate where I was ejected from my truck doing roughly 110mph, I obviously lived but while I was in my wheelchair a month or 2 after the wreck I came up with this exact idea on my own. I tried to explain to a few people that I thought this had happened, and all it did was make people look at me funny
Same here. I got really sick and had the same experience. I’m still trying to make sense of it and think about it everyday. In searching the topic I came across this video…
"I'm having a stroke right now."
Don't worry, most of yous aren't.
actually, an infinate number of Joe's had a stroke at that moment.
Half of him are having a stroke right? Or at least half of him that are telling the story exactly the same way...
Well if u gotta stroke one out ya gotta do what u gotta do don't worry no no1s looking but thanks for sharing 👍
@@mossel9292 an infinite number of Joe’s are experiencing an infinite number of possibilities at that moment.
@@williamkirkland2222 A bigger infinite number of Joes are just fine, though.
14:00 "what ever reality you live in, there will always be people trying to hack you". Wrong! According to the many worlds interpretation, there will be a reality where no one hacks you
There would be an infinite amount.
"You're tearing me APART Lisa"
"Oh hi doggy"
Ah my favorite customer
8:03 Oh haaiii Mark
There is a parallel universe where he did hit her, and she isn't tearing him apart.
Anyway, how is your sex life?
There is a universe where you and I are friends, Joe.
It is a great Universe.
Creepy!
A universe where my sister survive gestation? That would be my ideal universe
In one universe you're married
Cool.
"There’s a universe where I’m smelling your hair Joe"
The idea of anything being possible reminds me of “The Library of Babel” where EVERY sequence of letters is contained but not all make sense.
Library of babel is very cool! There is a recipe for cancer there!
This is real. I’m convinced. About 3 years ago, I “woke back up” after going completely unconscious and smashing my face into the sidewalk from what should have been a sudden fatal pulmonary embolism. Ever since then, and well before I’ve ever heard of this theory, I’ve felt that I died that day and literally everything about my life since that experience has felt “surreal” to me.
You're not alone, I was in an accident 2 years ago on a bridge where I should've been dead.. Lost consciousness and everything but woke back up with the car all smokey and nothing but a huge bump on my head and a shattered knee.
I was 21.. My gf was 19 it's so weird to be able pin point a specific day that you knew you died but are somehow still alive here.
I have a cat named Schrodinger because for the first three months after he wiggled his way into our basement and we shut off the exit we never really saw him. We inferred his presence from the disappearing food and the offerings in the litterbox.
😂😂😂
Ba,Ha,ha,ha! You had a Shrodinger mousetrap until you gave him love!
I wanted to name a kitty Heisenberg for the uncertainty principle but everyone kept assuming I meant a character in Breaking Bad. 😅
... but did the tree really fall or what ?
Anyway, y'all got the cat's name
wrong ... It's 'Spooky'.
... or was it all three superimposed
names at the same time ?
I'm so confused now.
- I'm sorry, this video is so
f... boring, I just had to doodle
something.
Btw, have y'all ever seen a
protein complex walk along
a microtubule spindle ?
Life is stranger than quasi-reality.
Ok, bye.
@@gregorysagegreene Lol, Spooky was actually the name of one of our cats when I was growing up.
Spooky cat-names at a distance?
Whenever I almost hurt myself, I immediately think of the other me's that just did hurt them self's or just died.
That's a lot of dead meese...
Whenever I think about the times one of my kids had an accident, sometimes my fault, I think about the other thems that died and the mes mourning them.
it's spooky to think about theres another me that thought of writing this but I didn't because I didn't
@@evolutionarydeadend6812 lol often think
that when we actually did die we transfer to an identical universe where it did not happen.
Yep turned a power socket recently (massive bang) jumped out of my skin and had that exact thought? Did I die? Not from my perspective. This is the crux of it. The oldest person is about 125 years old now following the logic of quantum immortality will they be 130 then 140 then 200 then 300 and thinking from there perspective what the hell? I don't know if that is the worst thought of all in trillions of universes you dont make it to 9 months and in Trillions of others you never die and just go on forever?
"What Cat???"
- Schrodinger's Dog ......1947
🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I had an experience over a year ago where I died, and I saw a literally endless web/network of my life; past, present, future, and all the endless permutations. For every time that I've had a near-death experience, a version of me DID die, and everyone in that reality dealt with the aftermath of that. For me, however, my consciousness continued its path as a "close call". This was before I really dove into quantum mechanics, and came to understand what the experience was from a scientific point of view. It's not that there's a "better" me out there, because every possible me exists at every moment in and out of time. I'm just experiencing the current me, because the way our consciousness exists is due to passing through time, and observing the movement of particles in the universe. Any other consciousness that's interfacing with the body I'm in is not another me, in the same way that a clone is not another me; it's a completely different being.
After that experience, for the next day or so, it was like my brain was only passively controlling my body, and it took a while to reconnect and feel grounded. In the interim, I was still the consciousness that is me, but I had no memories. I was existing in the moment, and it seems now that the only reason I feel like "myself" is the memories associated with my body, and the experience I had feels like it was something I imagined, except that I make a huge effort to journal my dreams and unusual experiences, and in the same way that re-reading a dream journal can bring back memories of being in that dream, re-reading my journal from that experience reminded me of what happened.
I'm not saying that we each exist in our own world, where the only thing that matters is ourselves, because everyone alive in the world is a consciousness, and is just as valuable or invaluable or real as I am. We barely understand our universe, and as we begin to learn more about quantum physics and expand our view on the universe and study dimensions that we can only comprehend mathematically, we'll come to understand more not only about ourselves, but the relationships and connections that we share to things larger than ourselves.
Large doses of psychedelics give the same experience of the time illusion falling apart and living multiple concurrent versions of reality. Really makes you go hmmm and not take shiz too seriously...
Cool story bro, say hi to those shrooms for me
@@Kalumbatsch it wasn't shrooms, but they say hi back anyways, and said to call them sometime, cause they miss you lol
Wow 👀. #JESUSistHEKINGofKINGS✝
If your no✝ seeing #JESUSistHEKINGofKINGS✝ during yOUR trip... #GODLOVESISREAL #GODSLOVEISREAL
"Shrödingers cat for vegans" - this is it chief
Your intros are their own types of art. Very good art, actually
So this means southerners are right when they call someone "y'all"
Yes. And in Philly, people use "yous" as a plural
Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willis?
@@ikani1 lots of people do. Joe done it in this video. It accepted by literary experts as there is no plural of "you" in the English language.
@@randommadness1021 Actually.... the "you" is plural. The singular is "thou".
@@Tubluer maybe in olde English. Not today.
I can't tell you how much I relate to the topics you post and the way you tell things. Every question that pops up in my brain, you answer. You explain things in an easy and intuitive way. I'm glad I finally found the perfect channel to watch while I eat.
This is by far my favorite RUclips channel. Funny, yet informative on things I never knew I wanted to know.
Thanks. Just a minor correction: Electrons do NOT travel at light speed (unlike what you mentioned in at 11:50)
They do when they need to get to a washroom.
@@Tubluer hahahahahaha
Very true @Saeed Sharif. The reason electrons don't travel at light speed is because they have mass. A requirement for something to travel at light speed is that it be massless. I think Joe might've been thinking of photons which are massless and do travel at the speed of light although they don't travel through time.
At 1% of the speed of light to be exact.
@@ldfox11 Wut? That doesn't sound right at all.
They were, at the very least, ill tempered mutated sea bass. :P
Budget didn't stretch to sharks with fricking lazer beam on their heads.
With frickin laser beams on their heads
How can you say that they are
How can you say that they are mutaded are you fishicist!
Sharks with "lasers" on their head...
Electrons don't travel at the speed of light, they have a tiny bit of mass that prevents it
He was almost certainly thinking of photons when he said that. Electrical signals move through our printed circuit boards at about 70% of _c_, although the individual electrons don't move anywhere near that fast.
I find it interesting that in my dreams I often interact with relatives who are no longer alive. The strange thing is that there does seem to be a parallel existence I enter with events that follow a different timeline over several nights sleep. I have a scientific background so tend to think this is all just imagination but find it fascinating nonetheless.
I have often felt as though while I'm dreaming I'm peering into other realities. Like you, while dreaming, I will have days (sometimes weeks) when I feel like I'm in the same one. Sometimes years later I'll dream and "revisit" some which feel familiar, meaning I can vividly remember dreaming of them previously. It's an incredibly odd feeling when, while awake, events mirror those I've witnessed in my dreams...especially when I can recall having dreamed such events, and at the time of said dream, those types of possibilities seemed impossible/improbable. Dreams truly are a very strange part of the human experience.
I have a map in my extremely vivid dreams that consists of places I know and those that I don't have any recognition of. It's creeping me out because I've been having dreams in this map since childhood. I feel like those places shouldn't be connected in one particular way. As much as I love science and I study engineering, I had multiple "prophetic" dreams so I genuinely think dreams have access to something beyond earth. Also I very often wake up at 3:33 by seeing scary creatures in my dream, i really don't like it, especially since my grandma and her daughter (my aunt) have exactly same problem.
@@rubyiskira8939 I don't get nightmares very often and I sympathise with you because it can't be pleasant at all to experience them regularly. I used to be certain nothing existed beyond our realm but I had my heart stop for 20 seconds a few year back and had a rushing into the sky sensation while I was unresponsive. It could just be an oxygen starved brain but I was surprised I still felt a form of consciousness while it happened.
You have a scientific background? So how many beakers an hour can you scrub? LOL
@@Mr.CliffysWorld Funnily enough we used to have a team of people doing the washing up of beakers etc for us (always rinsed any acids etc away before they collected them of course). I was a chemistry technician in a company that manufactured culture media actually but moved into IT in 1987 so don't test me on the periodic table because I don't remember much about it.
The "pausing a movie" metaphor is beautiful. If that's original, that's the best expression of this concept that I've ever heard.
since memories are (in theory) part of the 3 dimensional configuration of your brain's particles, your consciousness also would probably never notice if you one day died in your sleep and woke up in some radically different version of your life. different job, different house, different family, different body, and your consciousness still shouldn't miss a beat, because all the memories it would have access to would say "this makes sense."
That's the most interesting and frightening thing I've heard in a while.
"since electrons travel at light speed ..."
... Nothing with mass can travel at light speed.
he probably meant - electromagnetic waves, but yeah, thats a bad mistake Joe!
*near light speed would have been accurate.
If that’s all he screwed up in this.... amazing work! Brain scramble for sure! :-)
@@adi4u48821 electron go slower than you walkin speed in a circuit board or electrical wire
Sorry that Joes 99.9998% accurate statement wasn’t enough
Me: let me relax with Joe talk before sleep
8 ours later...
Me: the fricking cat is dead or alive 🤯👁👁
I believe an episode of Devs tests this theory, I would highly recommend that show to you Joe
Came here to say this
The dam scene?
That would be Episode 7
Name of the show?
@@gangulashirdinath3319 "Devs" can be found on Hulu and possibly elsewhere
Love this concept. I manage to read too few books each year and this year I completed a cool book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It uses this concept to mess with your mind and play with your emotion. Definitely recommend for you Joe. Even though, the more knowledge you have on a subject, the less you are likely to enjoy it the way I did probably. But in at least 1 universe out there, you'll enjoyed the book.
I recommend "Something Deeply Hidden" by Sean Carroll for anyone wanting more details on this theory.
That's all right. My head hurts enough as it is.
electrons arn't moving at light speed
Yes, just explained this to my wife when it came up. Electrons only move less than an inch per second but the electrical potential moves through a circuit much faster, but still nothing like light speed. And with an AC current the potential switches to and fro before the electron has time to move very far, so it really does little more than vibrate a little in the oscillating electric field converting electrical energy into heat and light.
@@PaulMDove2 it may not be true for every world.
They move in electron speed
That depends on how they've been accelerated. You can accelerate at electron with a powerful laser and achieve very close to the speed of light for example. It all depends on the energy available to accelerate it.
Literally unnoticeable difference between speeds of electrons and photons dude
Best line: “Are all of you’s still with me?”
Some of me are 😂😂😂
He may be the first person to directly address the multiverse with such intention, it stirred an emotional response in me but maybe i'm oversharing now.. lol
@@stripes0215 Which 'you' had that emotional response, I wonder
*youse", ~ as so many 'use' that unvetted term....🤪
UK gets rick and morty. That got to me.
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort
I’m so glad this is actually a thing, I thought this for years and didn’t know how to explain or what to call it
Anyone else asking, “HTH did I get stuck in this reality?”
Ever since 2020 started.
wait forget I said that
@@nitroxylictv That boy ain't right, I tell you what.
@@nitroxylictvwhat did you say
The only quantum theory I need!
goddamn right, I dont have to feel bad when I waste my time now
Can't they replace the cat in these experiments with a corn plant.?
I see it this way, and I should say I came up with this when trying to argue how pre determined fate is possible at the same time we have free will. Then I saw a video on the many worlds theory and I said yes! Like that.
Imagine a tree a very large tree with almost infinite branches. All leading down to the trunk. To me the trunk is the one thing we all end up experiencing, the inevitable death. We are born at the tips of the branches of out tree. This is our tree and our tree alone. It interweaves with other trees but this one is just for us. Every part of the tree works it’s way down to the trunk some paths are short some are long. Every decision is a branch that converges down. It is all rewritten and planned. Since every possible outcome is there. Yet we chose the path we take. There is a path in which I didn’t write his and a path of your where you didn’t read this.
Our consciousness is immaterial and not made of matter, since it has no mass it can freely travel faster than the speed of light. I imagine that we are everywhere experiencing all possibilities at once and when we make a decision the wave form collapses on one of our branches and our consciousness is there.
The other us are there but they are not us we are not a physical form we are consciousness we are a spirit. Free will and predetermined fate. It’s been a few years since I thought this through and never wrote it down so this is a little jumbled.
I think you're at least somewhat right. Thank you for this.
I see Joe’s notification
I click
Joetification!
Why this stupid, generic, cringey AF comment has the biggest number of likes? I think Joe should make an episode about such phenomenon.
@@damyr It's a simple way of showing support that doesn't harm anybody. A greater phenomenon Joe should do a video on is; why some people feel the need to interject and put down others for no reason, thinking their opinion is the one that matters without realizing the pure hypocrisy of their statement.
damyr U mad bro?
@@adis95 That's pretty self-explanatory for those who can actually think. Because normal people are fascinated with adults who have brain of a 4 year old child.
But because you're such type of person, I can understand your confusion.
I always had this feeling that experiencing déjà vu was my remembering something another me had already experienced in another universe - as I was experiencing it.
I've been a subscriber for awhile now, donated to you Patreon too. While I was recovering from an illness your videos kept my bed bound mind a little more focused. You've helped to inspire me to go back to school after beating leukemia for microbiology. Thank you. Hope you keep making great videos.
OMG.. I've 100% experienced this but I never had anyone to talk to about it or any way to explain it.
I went through a horrible time where i, to my shame, attempted suicide in various ways.. and yet, against all odds, i somehow survived, completely unharmed... when there was nearly zero chance to.
I have always believed I DID actually die, but somehow shifted to a state where I did not.
To further clarify.. my first attempt was crossing 6 lanes of rush-hour, Manhattan traffic with my eyes closed. I even opened my eyes once and saw cars barelling down towards me.
No cars honked. No cars hit their brakes or screeched. It was, in fact, eerily quiet.. and i was forced to open my eyes when i tripped on the opposite curb, untouched. The highway was the West Side highway near Battery Park City.. check for yourself if I could have survived crossing it with my eyes closed during evening rush hour traffic moving at maximum speed.
More oddly, I have vague memories of being struck several times by different cars during the event.
Don’t be ashamed. Many of us have felt the same way. But glad you’re still with us. Now the real question is… Berenstain or Berenstein?
@@polythewicked lol. I actually checked again and it was 10 lanes. Man that highway was huge. Smh.
I'll tell you what.. when I was 6 years old i had a lot of trouble understanding when to use "ie" or "ei". To that end, when we took a class trip to the library.. i made it a point to ask the librarian (easier to ask since she didn't know me), using the Berenstein books, to explain it to me.
It was a 15 minute conversation about why it was Berenstein and not Berenstien. A conversation that wouldn't have happened if there was an A there, but most definitely did happen.. and yet..
So yes i definitely believe something is happening. Has been happening... maybe all along.
Yikes. So not only did you put your life in danger but someone else’s and all you can say is that you experienced something, no fault or care in the world for other people. Your ego and apathy makes me sad the first time it didn’t go through. How selfish of an act to try and kill others for your asinine desire.
@@ViburaBlanca is it normal in your world to have someone speak to you and hear nothing they say? You want me to feel bad about the accident i DIDN'T cause? Or potentially caused in another dimension (ignoring the fact that if i did indeed cause one and multiple dimensions exist then every outcome is inevitable)...?
Let me guess.. You're a flat-earther, too?
@@nookleer that fact that you base your carelessness on a theory is borderline mental. Who are you to even remotely justify this. Did or didn’t you did it, and you almost claimed the lives of an innocent family, a doctor, a nurse, etc.
Thats a twisted viewpoint, and its not funny. I’m glad you mentioned manhattan because I’m thousands of miles away for psychopaths like you. And even further out here in the country. You think of people as lab rats for your dumb theory and its sick, you need help.
This is why I loved the show sliders, it made these concepts more approachable
I freakin' *LOVED* that show!!
Just wanted to say thanks for your channel. I began watching just as I was entering the toughest time of my life and it's been a great source of comfort through ti all. Thanks again.
Do you know what I LOVE about your music bro?? The absence of background music! It’s truly sets you apart from 90% of videos I watch/listen to and tell you the truth, it’s wayyyyyyt better to me. Keep it up. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Whats crazy is I've been thinking about this myself. I've had a few too many near death experiences to just be that lucky. As in impossibly lucky. Which has had me wondering exactly what was talked about in this video. That you just experience the version that you some how survive in. Like a river that only the forks that continue will have a flow. You will just naturally go down the longest part of that flowing river because it will have the strongest current. Or maybe I'm just trying to rationalize the irrational. It at least makes more sense then a higher power looking out for me like others say.
I never skip ads* on your videos, i cannot afford patreon so this my contribution to help😃
Same😁
@@herrweiss2580 we know what ads mean lol
Make sure to like and favorite all his videos. It helps him get better RUclips algorithm and get a few cents or few dollars more.
@@StopFear Nah, he's richer than 80% of world population. And for someone who's seating in a room and talking to a camera, he's doing extremely well.
Me, too. I also watch video to the very end so it registers.
Depressed guy: "Ugh Joe's talking about immortality."
Joe: "quantum suicide..."
Depressed guy leans in: "go on...."
*me*
Depressed guy learns it's not possible to commit suicide.
@@kyjo72682 - or maybe it's impossible to NOT commit suicide. *waves sparkly quantum fingers*
@@mrJMD in other words: don't bother.
@@EuanWhitehead do you need someone to talk to? or was this just a joke
This reminds me of the movie The Prestige, where the magician uses a device that duplicates (or splits) him, and one copy gets displaced over a bit spacially while the other falls through a trap door into a tank of water and drowns. The one that survives would have a memory of an increasingly long chain of displacements and survivals.
I'm skeptical about the experiment where you always survive. It seems like it would accelerate the development of consciousness. Consciousness could never die. But if we look at nature, consciousness is rare.
It’s oddly comforting to imagine a deceased loved one still living with me in another world.
I agree. One where my Nannie, one of my aunts, and my husband is still with me and one where I did not get in an accident and have my leg amputated. I think about that sometimes actually, that in another universe, I still have both legs...
OTOH, in other worlds you also have twice the inlaws ...
1:16
For reference:
Statistically speaking, the chance of all these 60 measurements with a 50/50 chance all coming up with the same result is ~ 0.0 000 000 000 000 000 008 674%.
In other words: That is a chance of 1 to 115 292 504 606 846 976.
That's over 115 quadrillion.
that's nothing, like finding a single specific bit in the entire internet
Dude,how are you able to find time to calculate it
Ryan Yee its just 2^60
Still gonna buy a lottery ticket.
@Mark Furst Quantum immortality basically means you buy ALL the tickets and therefore win 100%
That moment you are in the shower and see a notification for a Joe video and you don’t even get out, you just press play.
No, my phone is from 2015. It's not waterproof...
Hes not my proudest fap but deff my smartest
Canadian Snowflake yeah I agree there is such a place where phones should not be. The bathroom is it. Too many dropped phones into toilets or water vapor in the air ruining the internals or accidental photos taken at inopportune times. Not saying all of these things have happened to me just saying. There is a place where phones don’t belong.
Ive had the feeling several times in my life during very big decisions and life/death scenarios that my "self" split in half and the other half of me took the other route.
The mind bending sentence when you say "are all of the yous with me" almost broke me.
35, 5 heart surgeries down, 2 strokes, suicidal depression from 9 to 23 old. Still alive riding that wave function like it's a stripper pole.
There is a book called Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. It is a Sci-fi novel that deals with the multi world theory and the end of it sent me into a existential crisis and made me ask so many of these questions.
All of this makes perfect sense once you realize that our consciousness is what generates physical reality. Our observation causing the wave form to collapse is the actual process of our consciousness turning away from the other potential "realities" and choosing the one it prefers.
Can we consciously choose the reality we want to shift to?
We all live in a version of reality that we believe we deserve. The struggle is to get in touch with your negative beliefs you hold about yourself.
The way to shift to a more preferable reality is to take action and act and behave as if you were already there.
You are not required to do a job you dont thoroughly enjoy. There is no law that says you cant be a forest ranger or a jet pilot if that is your passion. But you have to take action to make that reality come true. Your negative beliefs about yourself, your abilities, etc. is what holds you in this negative reality performing a job you hate living a life that is unsatisfactory. Your passion in life, the thing that makes you happy when you do it, that is the higher self attempting to guide you in the right direction. When you begin to follow your passion with honest intent, doors will start to open and your life will unfold in amazing ways.
Remember: If life seems like you're rowing upstream, like you're going in the wrong direction, it's probably because you are. Following your passion will always seem effortless and exciting. @@ijai303
A good friend of mine died from a brain tumor eight years ago. He was a very nice man. After the funeral me and others brought up how he may be alive in a parallel world. I still miss him terribly and hope he is alive somewhere.
Due to our limited life span, wouldn't all versions of ourselves eventually die out? Even if we had an unlimited life span our resources are limited.
@@dinosaurus4189 It depends on whether your own subjective experience can rise again in another being. I just mean that, subjective experience, not memories or anything.
Regardless, your current you (your personality, your memories, etc.) would be erased.
‘Mr Nobody’ is another good example movie that explores this topic
I find the wave collapse theories fascinating although sometimes it feels like theorists are jumping through alot of hoops to keep reality objective instead of subjective.
I once said, "You're always ever experiencing the universe where you haven't died yet."
Maybe I was on to something.
I still think it's possible to die considering there are situations that are impossible to survive, meaning you are alive until every single universe finds you dead. The only universe that exists is the one you are in and once your path is chosen the quantum events that occur cannot be revisited, meaning you are stuck where you are. This would mean if you put yourself in a situation where it is impossible to escape you will not be able to make another decision than the decision which lead you to your death. However, scarily enough, if your future [in the universe that you experience] is predetermined to only make decisions that do not lead you to death, it's possible that you are immortal.
@@dinkle9664 given the infinite, minute variations and subtle differences even the simplest choice can produce, there must be a limitless number of universes where humans have discovered immorality.
@@JacobraTheGreat I edited my response, consider the additions, also I don't disagree. I'm referring to the universe that YOU experience, not the ones that you're not seeing.
@@dinkle9664 I see what you are saying. This is all wild speculation on my part, but that's why it's fun! What ifs and why nots and who knowses.
Same dude. I have been explaining this to people for years from intuitive speculation and now I have science to back up what I'm talking about.
I can understand why people have trouble wrapping their head around this, but I've thought about this many times before so it seems perfectly normal to me.
11:54 - "Since electron travel at light speed..."
Um... no.
Okay how about electrons travel at speeds close enough to c to experience relativistic effects.
@@silverywingsagain only in vacuum :) in solid materials, like copper its way less than speed of light, about a few cm per second.
@@silverywingsagain Interesting, but I'd say moot. The very next sentence is that electrons "don't experience time" at all. This only occurs at c, which electrons don't move at.
Maybe he meant photons, in which case his broader idea might make sense. But then the circuit analogy wouldn't be quite as appropriate.
Almost two years ago now, I tripped down a steep flight of stairs and went down head first. I still have absolutely no idea how I didn't snap my neck. I banged myself up badly, but I didn't even end up with a head injury. I spent a couple weeks limping and recovered, but I still flashback to that moment right after tripping and right before landing where I just thought, "I'm dead." If many worlds is real, and to me it's the most logical interpretation of quantum mechanics, then there's at least a handful of worlds where I died that day. 🤢
This video is mind blowing. When Joe realizes the value behind this kind of content, he will realize how important his channel really is.
Did you know that Everett had a son who became a rock star, and until his middle age, knew nothing about his father's ground breaking speculations?
See my question is if I keep on living in another reality, and there's infinite versions of my reality, do I ever die? Do I just age on infinitely?
Is that your question, or do you ask other questions in other worlds?...LOL
See *you* are not immortal. Its *you* that is immortal
And if that’s the case why do we only observe people that die, is there some reason we can only observe a path where we are the only immortal ?
I assume that you may die but your soul will continue living through the infinite possibilities until we all eventually die at around 120 years old. At that point our soul is put to sleep for the time being because there is nothing more for us to do right now
I assume there is a version of you that is 54086 years old and you've had uncountable heart attacks and strokes and different cancers, but by pure chance you never actually died from any of them.
Good video Joe. This subject is not easy to boil down to layman's terms but you did a good job. I recommend Sean Carroll's recently released book 'Something Deeply Hidden' for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics without getting into the equations. Sean, a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology at CalTech, is a champion of the Many Worlds approach and he references Hugh Everett often in his book.
I was WAITING for you to cover this - you never disappoint!! XO
Joe, I've been a follower for years. The years I haven't been I've caught up on and really enjoy just about everything you have to say. I'm on a fixed income with disability so I've never been able to join to the full extent but always think about it when I get paid each month. Because of that I don't comment much because I kinda feel unworthy. I wish I could do more to show my appreciation. I love your shirts and they're brilliant in themselves. I go as far as watching the ads in your show all the way through to make sure that it's counted towards you. So I guess this is my thank you that's been years in the making.
You are absolutely worthy! 💯 😊 ❤ Watching ads all the way through does help any channel.
Joe, Hugh Jackman and David Bowie already made this movie: The Prestige.
I came here to say this, but knew in my heart it had already been said.
@@SirRebrl In another universe you came first
The thing I liked the most about that movie is the idea that Borden was so competent at magic and making concepts of magic that even his troll machine worked when Tesla made it for Danton. I don't know if the book clarifies what the deal is with that but the movie just glosses over it. Tesla merely had to tune in the troll concept by Borden to make it work properly. I do enjoy the movie though.. Outside that issue. Nolan did a pretty good job with it. IMO.
@@theoretic7856 if it was so, the hats would not show up, and also the other cat. IMHO, the movie revolves around the concept of cruelty and horror that is hidden behind a trick, just to have a wondrous experience. Also, the horrorific message is that this is also embedded in the fabric of reality.
@@pierluigidipietro8097 So are you saying that borden's concept was perfect even though he thought it was a joke or that tesla just created his own machine and if so why did it look so much like bordens concept art? I'm not trying to figure out what the story means to the people or what the author was trying to convey. I just like to think that Borden had such a firm grasp on magical concepts that he was able to make/invent something amazing by accident. The story makes sure to tell us he's just as good as Cutter at the hardware side of magic. His flaw was in showmanship. I'm not looking for the philosophy of the characters or the lesson being taught because everyone takes different things from movies. I have found that it can be very subjective and sometimes translate far from the intent of the author. Just curious if anyone else thought about the fact that Borden's machine was actually magic. Or do they think that tesla built a completely different machine.
"Counterpart" 👀 is a Science Fiction TV show based on this topic.
One thing that has always bugged me about the fact that a decision makes multiple universes is that we use a very Human Centric form of decision. What is a decision in this sense?
When you are procrastinating your work by commenting on a RUclips video about quantum theory you made a decision to do so. But every second of the video you make the decision to keep watching. If you need to go to the toilet you either go or not. Every time you take a step you make a decision to put your foot at the exact position you put it in and not a millimeter to the left or right. Everytime you breath or blink you technically make a decision.
Does this also count for animals? What about things that aren't alive. I wouldn't call the non deterministic quantum particles that this whole thing is about alive or conscious.
I can follow the many worlds explanation when you're looking at those particles that create a "new world" everytime they get locked into place, but then I get lost when this gets generalized for the decisions that we as humans make. Because does that then mean that any decision correlates 1 on 1 with a collapsing wave function? What about decisions that have many outcomes, are those many wave functions collapsing at the same time? I don't see any other way that that would make sense and that still doesn't make any sense to me.
And that is, why Sliders was such an awesome concept for a TV show and why it’s a damn shame, the producers ruined it the way they did after Season 2 🤬
Which Rick is the Rickest Rick?
I guess all of the infinite c137 Ricks
Yo Joe, what's up? I just discovered your channel. Cool stuff man. And also dr strange saw only those millions cuz it takes an infinte time to run through infinite worlds.
Not true at all or Doctor Strange wouldn't have been able to view as many parallel universes as he did. He blatantly says that's the one future where they win, so he did too, in movie, check out every possible future. You seem to be forgetting they time moves differently when magic gets involved, let alone the friggin Time Stone that Strange used to expand his powers to pull off such a feat. Js.
@@nickleo7586 no he specifically said he checked 14,000,605. So..he checked a specific amount from those infinite worlds because it is you know obvious that it would take infinte time to check infinite worlds
@@eleonarcrimson858 not... With the Time Stone. But I'll give you credit, he didn't say he checked every possible future, so I was wrong there for sure. With the Time Stone he could slow down time to check on timelines. Now I'm thinking he used the time stone to extend his powers to check out as many possible futures as possible in those few mins he was hovering in the back. You can't tell me he checked over 14 billion timelines in 5 mins but that it would take infinite time to check them all... With MAGIC. You keep forgetting magic and the time stones own powers.
@@nickleo7586 no just think about it what you have to check is infinte timelines however your power is multiplied unless it is infinitly multiplied, you can't check them in more than infinte. I know how this misunderstanding come from, you are thinking about infinte as number, think of it as a state. For example even if you can run a googlplex times than the speed of light you can't escape infinity, so it is not as much as a power thing it is more of a math thing, where you can't escape or catch-up with infinity, with always one more to check, it is in ending.
@@eleonarcrimson858 you seem like you're still just viewing this from a completely physical point of view, the physics of it all, but let go of reality got a minute because magic is involved lol the time stone could allow Strange to literally stop time and take all the time he needs to, that leaves us with 2 options: either Strange DID manage to look through every possible future or Strange is a dick who didn't keep looking for futures where they win and stark lives, just long enough to find one way to win, and he would be a dick for that for not looking for other possible futures where Stark doesn't die. What a moment though, for the character, to debate whether or not to keep searching for possible futures when you've found one that coincidentally kills off a guy you blatantly don't like? Kinda puts Strange in a villainous situation if he didn't check all possible futures.
Getting close to a million... I have always been surprised the number of followers isn’t 10 times what it is.
Well, he's not really Veritasium or Vsauce category. He just seats in his room and talks.
Ya it’s crazy how much his channel has grown I remember when he hit 10k and now... WOW
@@chiefinmota3712 how so?
My hypothesis is that since we're all the exact same thing in the utmost fundamental level: consciousness, there's no real difference between you and me. It's just a different frame of perspective. Perhaps consciousness or sentience is the most primordial thing in existence and it "shines" through different bodies which are capable of hosting that sentience via brains. Sometimes when I look in the eye of someone and they look back at my eyes, I feel like I'm staring at myself and I'm staring me back. That's pretty mindblowing.
His idea offers the ultimate challenge. At any point in time I have individual moments in time to make choices that define who “I “ am as a human. I choose to remain conscious of the stream that promotes kindness.
I have been secretly going to every universe to kill myself so I can claim my own power for myself so I can get stronger and faster. This might make a good movie. Jet Li should be the main actor.
That sounds like it would be awesome and maybe even feature a pre-fame Jason Statham, with hair at that. I mean, with the multiverse, everything is possible lmao
Maybe there's just one human and we're all Jet Li. Or Christopher Lambert 🤔
This also assumes the energy of your other selves shares a collective source, otherwise that energy would just dissipate as each individual thread is cut so to speak
@@nickleo7586 now we just need a studio and a name. Let's go! 😆
@@keenfire8151 I'm thinkin Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios might be interested. Idk. Your Dad is on point about the title. The One would be fitting. Definitely make sure there's a scene toward the end where ya can't tell which Jet Li is the good one, then have the good ones shirt get ripped so we can tell lol
I used to think about this a lot! But I (we heh) never knew that there was an official study and theory around it.
Not to sound like a "ha I do drugs meme lord" but I genuinely used to microdose acid frequently, and occasionally take full trips, and this would always be on my mind. It's been a forethought for me ever since cleaning myself up.
What if our loved ones are still living in other universes? What if all the people you interact with daily are congregating in the universe that you are in as survivors of past survive/die scenarios?
There would also be multiverses where you were never born 🤯
Actually the same here, but I don't do acid. but I also thought of another type of immortality, one where the infinity of time was involved. It works like this: if time is infinite, and existance had a start (which it totally had), there is absolutely no reason for existance to not exist again after a large (maybe infinite?) Amount of time? But This would also mean there were other realities before this one. Infinite even.
But this would also mean there are infinite realities where I existed.
I know it sounds weird but once you get it its pretty interesting.
@@Static_250 lol Arthur, there is a "joe rogan big bang theory" comedy stand up clip where he exactly puts what you said into reality as a universe reset theory xD
@@Static_250 same here. Since I was a child I used to think about this. I never ever thought it could be something the others might think as well.
Something that I've wrestled with when it comes to this interpretation is that according to my loose understanding of QM, particles take all paths when in a superposition even technically impossible ones... If that were the case and we assumed that there were infinite universes exploring each path, surely the odds that ours has some particles take supposedly impossible paths would be quite good, as infinite impossible paths far outnumber those possible in our understanding. So why don't we see them if we have no effect on collapsing the waveform to something more probable?
You're forgetting interference; thinking of summing probabilities rather than complex amplitudes. That said, so far MWI has failed to justify / recover the correct calculation of the [relative] probabilities of QT (the Born rule). But even if its proponents ever do manage to convince us that they've achieved this crucial step - without it, it's not an interpretation at all! - the MWI is not an interpretation that anyone with a thorough, modern understanding of the theory should take seriously. Everett had the (partial) excuse that at the time he proposed the MWI, in the early-mid 1950s, the mathematics of QT would've still seemed mysterious. Nowadays, we can benefit from the understanding that it *is* probability theory.
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Greg Egan's early novel, "Permutation City" deals with the concept of Quantum Suicide, and with "Dust Theory", which is even stranger.
This actually makes it a whole lot more clear for me. Thank you.
As a kid in middle school I remember going on crazy day dreams where I would picture and imagine a “new me” magically appearing after making any decision. That “new me” would make the opposite decision of the one I had made and he would continue living in his own universe that had no influence over mine. However once he came across making his next decision the whole thing would repeat itself and there would be a “new me” creating a third universe. While I would continue to live in my universe and create a new one with each decision. Just thinking that this was happening not only to me but to every single living person would make me realize we have no free will as we remain stuck in our universe, predetermined as to everyone make the “correct decision” and continue on the parallel universe line.. I was fucking 12 thinking this🤯
10:10 ok this dude literally put happy and sad face emojis right there in their grand mathematical equation.
Genius
Thank you, Joe. You've succinctly put my feelings into life and death better than I could, but I believed this for years! This is the result of realizing that our consciousness, by being alive at this moment in time, means there is no time that we are not consciousness.
Joe, I loved the video., You should consider doing one about 'Is the universe infinite?' Because if so, it brings up many of the same strange concepts. Like with infinite space you have infinite possibilities, therefore if you could travel far enough you would eventually find another earth identical in every way to ours, along with another you. Basically if space is truly infinite then anything can and does exist. Sorta like the many worlds idea except they are all here in the same dimension as us existing in the same universe. Just seperated by crazy amounts of space and time.
Fascinating, eye-opening, enlightening. :)
Each new video on this channel the less I understand the subjects. Yet I keep getting more entertained. Thx for blowing my mind Joe, ly.
When you're still unsure if it's pronounced Schrödinger or Schrödinger 4:25
Glad that's cleared up 🙂
@@shrodingerscat8940 is your name pronounced both ways when people are unsure but as soon as someone says your name the other pronunciation does not exist?😂😂😂
@@shrodingerscat8940 and you also didn't react to.
Good transition today Joe. I almost choked on my water when I heard that lol. Good message though and good video too
I absolutely love this video. I’ve been thinking about this topic for ages. It came up in my head when thinking about the copy problem with teleportation. If a copy of me thought he was me then am I really me? Am I even “me” from one moment to the next? Relieved that smarter men are working on it though we may not like the answers we find.
My video froze exactly when Joe said "when you pause a movie"
I thought it was a joke until I went back and watched it again.
Bruh.
5. Concluding Remarks
We have seen that during Schrödinger evolutions, the
validity of (6) and (7) ensures that the expectation value
A referred to the individual system S and its measurement
device M remains constant in time. But if the rule governing
the process is replaced with a law different from
Schrödinger equation, the validity of conservation laws
cannot be guaranteed a priori [19-24]. Ballentine points
out that some theories that modify the Schrödinger
equation in order to include spontaneous state reductions
lead to the non-conservation of the energy [8]. Our study
shows that projections induced by measurements, as they
are considered in the framework of orthodox quantum
mechanics, conflict with the conservation laws.
However, the results of these two analyses have a
difference worth noticing. In the theories Ballentine refers
to, energy is continuously gained, although its magnitude
is too small to be detected [8]. In collapses occurring in
the framework of orthodox quantum mechanics, the
change A(tf) - A(t0) is not necessarily small but, when
the process of measurement of AS is repeated many times,
the average of A(tf) is close to A(t0). This is why we
claim that in measurement processes, conservation laws
still have a statistical sense.
In an approach to quantum mechanics previously
formulated we have included, as an essential ingredient, a
postulate that ensures the statistical sense of conservation
laws in every process involving projections [25,26]. In this
approach no reference to the subject or to measurement
devices is made. We there assume that in nature two kinds
of spontaneous processes occur: those ruled by the
Schrödinger equation, which is a deterministic equation,
and those ruled by the rules of probability, where
projections happen.
Let us conclude by pointing out that, in our view, there
is nothing sacred about conservation laws. Like every oth-
er scientific law, they could be false. The same is true of
the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics. The
intent of our contribution is to show that there is a contra-
diction between these two ideas, both of which are
adopted, perhaps, by the majority of physicists.
"There is a high probability that I will make the wrong decision." - Me ... probably.
Right? Like, there's more of me/infinite of me that have failed even harder? Hard to imagine.
1 minute ago #winning.... well, its a minor victory for today I guess
Joe it wasn’t that delayed at all, don’t sweat!
Except in those universes where it still hasn't been released, of course.
hey now unless you are a monthly contributor. it was kinda late. lol
@@AgentWaltonSimons lol epic answer
@Jeremiah Fieldhaven :o
The concept of the many worlds theory is truly mind boggling.
My Gods we love these kinds of videos, and your humor makes it all that much better. Thank you, we love you too Joe and team, and Stay Safe!
Every time someone mentions Hugh Everett III it reminds me of seeing his son performing with his band Eels in 1997.
wow... I did not know that. Very fun fact, thanks.
@Taiwanlight Yes, I've seen that (it's still up on YT). I'm just listening to "Flyswatter" by Eels - forgot how good they are...!