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July 31, 2006

Eureka Conversation

Though I'm not a big fan of the notion, it is possible to know too much. Last night was the perfect example of that as Dianne and I were watching the Tivoed Eureka episode from last week on the Sci-Fi channel.

Note: This contains spoiler information so only click on the link below if you don't care.

Dianne: Didn't she die last episode?
Jamison: She sure did!
Dianne: How did that happen?
Jamison: Well I think this will be a variation on the Schrödinger's cat paradox.
Dianne: Uh, hun. What's the Schrödinger's cat paradox?
Jamison: Well it's the fact that until you take a measurement in quantum mechanics you can't know which reality is true, meaning every decision leads to multiple versions of reality in which both decisions are true. So you end up with an infinite number of realities in which every decision you make has a reality where the opposite decision was made.
Dianne: Well that's stupid, I don't believe that.
Jamison: That's just what quantum mechanics says. I'll bet when he was working on the quantum device in the last episode that it caused some time dilation causing two versions of reality to exist simultaneously creating two versions of the same woman in the same stream of time.
Dianne: Wouldn't it be easier to just clone her?
Jamison: Now that doesn't make any sense, how did the clone know what she knew, the only way to make the storyline work would be the time dilation.
Dianne: She's a clone.
Jamison: Yes, dear.

Twenty minutes later of course Dianne was proven correct. It seems Hollywood shares her interest in simplicity in story lines, or the lack of understand of the quantum mechanical vision of the reality. Either way I got an I told you so!

Check out Sci-Fi's Eureka.

Posted by Jamison at July 31, 2006 12:25 PM

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