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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 02:59 AM
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Universe Splitter iPhone App lets you have your cake and eat it too.
Edited on Sun Oct-18-09 02:59 AM by bananas
http://blogs.discovery.com/twisted_physics/2009/10/yeah.html

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Scientists say that every quantum event plays out simultaneously in every possible way, with each possibility becoming real in a separate universe. You can now harness this powerful and mysterious effect right from your iPhone or iPod Touch!

How? Whenever you're faced with a choice -- for example, whether to accept a job offer or to turn it down -- just type both of these actions into Universe Splitter©, and press the button.

Universe Splitter© will immediately contact a laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, and connect to a Quantis brand quantum device, which releases single photons into a partially-silvered mirror. Each photon will simultaneously bounce off the mirror and pass through it -- but in separate universes.

Within seconds, Universe Splitter© will receive the experiment's result and tell you which of the two universes you're in, and therefore which action to take. Think of it -- two entire universes, complete with every last planet and galaxy, and in one, a version of you who took the new job, and in the other, a version of you who didn't!



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Aragorn Donating Member (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 09:30 AM
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1. great
now I can find out what my life would be like if i DID want an iphone. Thanks, Dude - or maybe not.
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Sinti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 09:58 AM
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2. The Cake is a Lie... still. n/t
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 10:26 AM
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3. How come I never end up in the universe . . .
. . . where I got the winning lottery ticket?
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-18-09 06:14 PM
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4. I'm in the universe in which an iPhone app and Internet connection to another hemisphere...
...are considered an advance over flipping a coin.
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