Quantum immortality has never made any sense because even if you are so delusional to believe in the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics, if you die there's like a near infinite number of branches where you're still alive, so how does your "soul" or whatever know which specific one of those branches to hop to? People always speak of it as if you "jump to the branch where you're still alive"... but there isn't one of them. There is an infinite number of them. So how does it pick the specific one you find yourself on?
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It doesn't have to pick any specific one; any branch in which you're alive will do.
Nobody's really "jumping", you just don't die. The universe constructs itself such that you don't die—there's nothing more to it.
It is a funny superpower idea. Like turning invisible. Which also doesn't make any sense if you think about it.
A lot of really smart people are really dumb.
Enjoy it while you can. Quantum immortality is a horror story in the long run. You can still suffer, you can still prefer to die rather than living as whatever shriveled husk you've eventually inevitably been reduced to, but in quantum immortality, you can never die -- you must stay and remain capable of observing whatever new horrors are coming your way.
Only applies for quantum processes that kill you instantly. If you get into a branch that is guaranteed to end in your death in the future, like jumping into a black hole, your only possibility is to die.
Hm... Is it technically possible -- however fantastically, ludicrously unlikely -- that quantum teleportation could transport you from inside to outside the event horizon of a black hole?
It's all about precision of measurement, after all. You can never know exactly where a given particle is, including the particles that make up your body. However you try to measure the location of one, there's always a slight chance that it's actually somewhere else. This chance drops off dramatically through distance, but it theoretically never drops off to absolutely zero no matter how far away you look. But does the event horizon of a black hole interrupt this, creating a hard boundary in where a particle's location may or may not be observed?
Honestly, I doubt this is answerable without a completed theory of quantum gravity, which has so far been beyond the reach of science. This is just one more instance where quantum theory and relativity theory disagree on what can/would happen, and until the two theories are reconciled, we can never really know what would happen in situations where they conflict like this.
But is any of that even necessary? You don't instantly die when you cross the event horizon. You can still carry on observing things as you fall deeper into the black hole. When push actually comes to shove for quantum immortality is when you come up against one of the black hole's several ways of killing you. (Which one occurs first will depend on the black hole's mass and maybe also which interpretation of the physics is correct. In some interpretations of physics, it might even depend on which frame of reference you're considering it from -- an outside observer might disagree with the unlucky test subject about which happened first.)
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Fall all the way until you're crushed into the singularity at the center?
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Spaghettification due to extreme tidal forces pulling your lower half harder than your upper half?
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Radiation damage due to time dilation effects blueshifting all the incoming energy from outside the black hole into deadly-powerful and concentrated x-ray radiation?
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Radiation/heat damage from crossing through a shell of energetic photons orbiting at about the level of the event horizon?
Quantum immortality would have to find a (statistically unlikely, but still technically possible) way for you to avoid all of these causes of death and keep you just barely alive enough to observe things. Radiation is the easiest -- just need to randomly divert enough of those radiation particles around you or tunnel them through you without touching, and you're safe from that. Not sure how quantum effects could protect you from the other two, though ... we might be getting back into the quantum gravity problem.
Theres a real possibility that a black hole event horizon breaks down reality on a quantam level.
That's just it, though -- we really don't know. We don't have a single consistent theory that can describe both quantum and relativistic effects at the same time, so in situations where both are relevant and important, we're at a bit of a loss.
Perhaps there is a quantum limit or some universal quantum destination we are all destined for.
Maybe it’s all Jeremy bearimies at some point? Who knows
Look, we've all seen the time knife.
Ope, better check for new Mandela effects
Oh an opportunity to bring up the game Drifter. Loved the story in that and without going into too much it’s also a form of sci-fi immortality.