The Strangest Idea in Science: Quantum Immortality

Use code coolworlds at https://incogni.com/coolworlds to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. One of the leading interpretations of quantum theory is that every probabilistic event leads to a branching of reality, where all possibilities occur. This "many worlds" interpretation has been growing in prominence, but it implies a bizarre consequence. It might mean that you can never die, and will continue to survive not only life threatening events but even old age. Join us today as we explore the extraordinary idea of quantum immortality. Written & presented by Prof. David Kipping. Edited by Jorge Casas. → Support our research: https://www.coolworldslab.com/support → Get merch: https://teespring.com/stores/cool-worlds-store → Check out our podcast: www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsPodcast THANK-YOU to T. Widdowson, D. Smith, L. Sanborn, C. Bottaccini, D. Daughaday, S. Brownlee, E. West, T. Zajonc, A. De Vaal, M. Elliott, B. Daniluk, S. Vystoropskyi, S. Lee, Z. Danielson, C. Fitzgerald, C. Souter, M. Gillette, T. Jeffcoat, J. Rockett, D. Murphree, M. Sanford, T. Donkin, A. Schoen, K. Dabrowski, R. Ramezankhani, J. Armstrong, S. Marks, B. Smith, J. Kruger, S. Applegate, E. Zahnle, N. Gebben, J. Bergman, C. Macdonald, M. Hedlund, P. Kaup, W. Evans, N. Corwin, K. Howard, L. Deacon, G. Metts, R. Provost, G. Fullwood, N. De Haan, R. Williams, E. Garland, R. Lovely, A. Cornejo, D. Compos, F. Demopoulos, G. Bylinsky, J. Werner, S. Thayer, T. Edris, F. Blood, M. O'Brien, D. Lee, J. Sargent, M. Czirr, F. Krotzer, I. Williams, J. Sattler, B. Reese, O. Shabtay, X. Yao, S. Saverys, A. Nimmerjahn, C. Seay, D. Johnson, L. Cunningham, M. Morrow, M. Campbell, B. Devermont, Y. Muheim, A. Stark, C. Caminero, P. Borisoff, A. Donovan, H. Schiff, J. Cos, J. Oliver, B. Kite, C. Hansen, J. Shamp, R. Chaffee, A. Ortiz, B. McMillan, B. Cartmell, J. Bryant, J. Obioma, M. Zeiler, S. Murray, S. Patterson, C. Kennedy, G. Le Saint, W. Ruf, A. Kochkov, B. Langley, D. Ohman, P. Stevenson, T. Ford, T. Tarrants, A. Laroye, I. Venzor, R. Raszka, B. Gaalen, A. Taylor, D. Wedgewood, J. Alley, D. Aron & G. Thomsen. REFERENCES Tegmark, Max (1998), "The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Many Worlds or Many Words?", Fortsch. Phys. 46, 855-862: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9709032 MUSIC Licensed by SoundStripe.com (SS) [shorturl.at/ptBHI], Artlist.io, via CC Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) or with permission from the artist. 0:00 Hill - A Flickering Start 2:48 Joachim Heinrich - Stjärna 5:48 Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five 9:24 Chris Zabriskie - World of Wonder 10:51 Stephen Keech - Selha 13:25 Hill - A Sad Scene from a Sad Film 16:54 Hill - The Persecuted 19:39 Falls - Life in Binary 22:10 Hill - Mourning Wakes 25:35 Hill - The Now is Only a Thin Slice of Who I Am 28:46 Kyle Preston - An Ocean of Quiet Confession 31:29 Kyle Preston - Up The Oregon Coast 33:43 Joachim Heinrich - Y CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 5:48 The Wavefunction Never Collapses 9:26 Incogni 10:55 Quantum Russian Roulette 14:41 Generalized Immortality 16:57 Anthropic Reasoning 19:28 Corrected Intensity Rule 22:10 Non-Quantum Analogies 28:45 What is Self? 31:26 Final Thoughts 35:43 Outro & Credits #CoolWorlds #QuantumImmortality #ManyWorlds