Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe
Monday, September 13th, 2004 by Maryam WebsterJust because it’s the doggone hardest thing to rest when I want to be active, I sometimes give in and surf the wyrder parts of the web. Here’s something I came up with today, an interesting game to play:
“One of the more audacious attempts to explain what quantum physics means is Everett’s Many Worlds Hypothesis. In this interpretation, every measurement outcome is actually realized, spawning off a new universe for every possible outcome. Every measurement splits reality. You, and everything else, exist simultaneously in each universe, a multi-verse of parallel dimensions.
As in all interpretations of quantum mechanics, the Many Worlds view does not actually predict any new phenomenon. It isn’t a testable idea, and so is not formally actually a hypothesis. There are also significant philosophical and theological grounds for rejecting this idea. If you make every choice you are faced with, then each “you” in every universe can dodge personal responsibility for your actions. Taken seriously, the Many Worlds idea destroys any possible foundations for morality or ethics. If people behaved in this way, in the limit, it would destroy civilization, and with it, science itself.
That said, the idea is not that crazy…”
Read more at: http://www.paradigmpuzzles.com/QT3ManyWorlds.htm
As I was walking in my local supermarket the other day, I happened into the aisle which carries nuts. Now the aisle that carries nuts had never before carried any snack foods, but the store had re-arranged their shelves and right next to the nuts I wished to buy, were Poptarts™ Toaster Pastries. In the old, old days when I ate whatever put itself in front of my mouth, I would have cherished a Brown Sugar Cinnamon Poptart™. Secondarily, a Frosted Cherry. Years ago, I would have bought and eaten the whole box in several days. As I looked at these relics from the past, a small intensity rose around the idea that I would like to eat a Brown Sugar Cinnamon Poptart™. Mmm, mmm good, I thought. And as I had this thought, I began to Temporal Tap along the channel above my ear, tapping right around from the front of the ear down to my earlobe, in back of my ear. I thought “mmm, mmm, good” and “Brown Sugar Cinnamon Poptarts™ hot from the toaster are sweet and melty and GOOD – gosh I’d love to taste one now!” tap-tapping all the while. I tapped first the left ear then the right. When I no longer had any craving for that flavor of Poptart™, I went on to the Frosted Cherry variety and did the same thing. A couple of seconds – maybe 30 or 45, is all it took. 
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