Quantum Suicide?
Most recent answer: 06/12/2013
- Ezgi (age 22)
Istanbul,Turkey
There is no reason to think that quantum mechanics implies anything as horrible as what your boyfriend fears. I think it's fair to say that its implications are overall neutral for human happiness.
Common interpretations of quantum mechanics suggest that consciousness may exist only as flecks in an enormous foam of quantum possibilities, all of which in some abstract sense happen. Nothing about the structure of quantum mechanics even begins to suggest that it has any more tendency to give rise to "states of pain and misery" than to any other state. Your boyfriend might content himself with plain observation of the actual ratio of happiness to misery. These plain data are bad enough. Or, as someone once said, "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof".
Mike W.
(published on 06/12/2013)