"The quantum cheeseburger will have fundamentally altered your destiny." I never thought that I'd hear that sentence, but I'm unsurprised that I heard it first from you.
That's an interesting thought though. If there's a universe where your parents simply named you Isaac Arthur, then I suppose yes you are Isaac Arthur in that universe, but is it possible for **you** to ever be Isaac Arthur? If you were born with the same exact physical make-up and shared the exact same experiences as Isaac Arthur could you possibly still be you, and not Isaac Arthur?
There is also the factor that in one improbability, you could miraculously go through a quantum change and become Isaac Arthur in a nanosecond. This has the added effect of probably adding two Isaac Arthur's in the universe, both of which will have to duel to the death on the planet Frogstar B in a desperate scrap for survival in an eternal universe which cannot support two Isaac Arthur's at once.
Has anyone ever witnessed a metal atom turning into a sugar molecule, or any such thing? I mean; I know about nuclear decay as far as protons turning into neutrons, but turning metal to sugar involves a lot more then that. A lot of this episode seems to be predicated on impossible things being, simply astronomically unlikely. Not shore I buy that.
It is unpleasant to be aware of the fact that one is in the process of being drunk. Well, better late than never. At least you can take solace in the fact that your life has been a pleasant one so far. (Unless, of course, your life has not been so pleasant, which, considering the circumstances, seems more likely. In which case, you can take solace that the horror is almost over. Every cloud has a silver lining (except a mushroom cloud, which to behold is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience).)
I have an ironic feeling that Adams didn't realise when he used his imagination to make fun of science, he was actually hitting on highly pertinent theoretical ideas in the light of quantum experiments.
I feel you've become much easier to understand in recent videos. You're speaking with more confidence and it makes you easier to follow. Also, love your content and agree with commenters saying you should write a book. Novel, fictive non-fiction or a collection of essays that you wrote, I'd probably enjoy reading it.
That and after having listened to him for over a dozen episodes I hardly hear it anymore so part acclamation part confidence. Definitely thought provoking.
@isaac Arthur how about an episode about what realistic options for alien biology are? i hear so much about "methane"-lifeforms or "silicon-based-Lifeforms" or "liquid-ammonuim"-lifeforms and youre the best at sorting the trash from the gems. Maybe its even worth a series
One episode had a slide listing some hypothetical alternative biochemisties. I still shiver thinking about "hydrogen flouride" at the bottom of that list. That's just a terrifying thought to me.
That, would be a fun way too light up those long dormant neurons from my days studying microbiology. Id imagine anything not carbon based would have to be very primitive, like prokaryote like at best.
Infiritthor that would be fantastic. It would be interesting to see how creatures with vastly different biology would even determine if we were alive or not. Or, keeping to the topic of today, they're from fluid space universe, where stars are condensed, fusing, and doing their thing, but in a fluid. Sort of like the not too explored ending of Pacific Rim or in Star Trek Voyager. The physics of that is making me drool.
I love the casual way you say that: "...cheeseburgers, even ones with bacon on them, which is better..." The "which is better" was stated in such a matter of fact way, no arguments considered. It just is better because: BACON!!!! Of course, I agree and second that opinion. Voting is not necessary.
But the pig that bacon comes from was contaminated by a bat and a pigeon having sex over the butchers' area. a feather fell onto it. I think you know where this goes.
you might end up getting married, having kids, mortgage, job you hate, etc... then years later, doctor finds a problem, turns to you and asks, "Have you ever eaten a cheeseburger?"
Damn, that idea of using a quantum number generator to dictate your choice of meal as a way to prove how the seemingly random events of quantum stuff can truly affect the macroscopic world was 100% genius.
I applaud you, Mr. Arthur. Great content as always. You explain things so thouroughly, you make it easy for us to understand, and you always drop straight 🔥🔥 with the consistent uploads!
Isaac, You are the first content creator on youtube i feel bad I can't donate too. I love the effort you put in and how at the end of a 40 min video that clearly a lot of time went into you are thanking others and thanking the audience. It's a pleasure to listen to your videos man.
When I listened to you talking about the quantum cheeseburger, I thought to myself that it's a fascinating concept and I wanted to visit it in my own writing, except to make it different, I'd call it the quantum chimichanga. And then you said quantum chimichanga. Blew my mind.
I'm writing this comment to let you know that I went to the pub, bought a quantum cheeseburger and a pint of quantum beer, and met the guy/girl of my dreams.
Alexander... In that case I'm ditching my diet and buying the Triple Coronary Bypass Burger, tomorrow. thevortexatl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/coronary_progression2_tighter.jpg
It is still a question, but mortality may soon be optional for some. If you had forever in the whole universe, (a version of) you might still contemplate suicide, and eventually we would encounter a similar issue to the ship of Theseus wherein (all of) you had had too many different experiences, and become a different (set of) person(s).
I prefer the moving without moving (Dune) method of travel. SNG also did this too. Much better "bending" space rather than being killed and being reassemble somewhere nearby.
I saw Tom Baker at a book signing once, and there was a 'real' Dalek in the bookstore... which sidled up to me and looked at me with its periscope... a very creepy experience. Tom Baker is the best Doctor Who in my opinion, too.
I can imagine. I'd like to meet him sometime, a few other folks have mentioned bumping into him and usually describe him as exactly as interesting and pleasant as one would expect.
If you or someone else happens to like Tom Baker and Elite: Dangerous, there's a voice pack for Elite featuring him, playing the role of a former scientist who "ascended" by uploading his mind and consciousness to a computer, and has since then somehow travelled the universe, and happens to take a temporary residence on your ship's computer. The pack is called Midnight if somebody is interested to take a look.
the fact that you made a video about this and psychohistory so close together is incredible. My favorite youtuber making videos about my two favorite science fiction series, what gets better than this?
Quantum randomizer link? I need to make a very big decision in my life and I want that if i'm wrong atleast the me from the alternate timeline could live better.
Samuel Nayman does this actually make a difference? whether you use the number generator or not, quantum randomness happens and creates every scenario.
Ahhh, Isaac, thank you so much for making this video! I've only relatively recently become a subscriber to your channel, but I'm very much digging it, and this particular video encapsulates precisely my concerns with Many Worlds theory, which so many writers seem to love. Huge numbers, much bigger than what we ever imagine when we contemplate infinity, yet finite. Great stuff!
I just want you to know that I love listening to your stuff to wind down. It’s so interesting and it helps me take my mind off of all the stress just imagining the words you say. Thanks bro.
Dammit Issac, you are quantum influencing me to go buy a cheeseburger now. I was going to eat a granola bar originally. I think ill need to use your ANU server now.
something i've really wondered but never really been answered about is um, what defines observation? can one atom observe another? or is it considered interaction with light? is light in fluctuation when not in observation, even if its the observer? im so confused ;-;
Rena Cava Observation, when used in this sense speaking of quantum effects, means observation by a consciousness, through any means. It does not imply visual sight. Essentially, observation means "the information has been noted". See also for reference, double slit experiment, and then more specifically the quantum eraser double slit experiment. If the double slit experiment showing the wave and particle behavior of an electron isn't weird enough, the addition of a quantum eraser will make you scratch your head.
Rena Cava that would be an interesting episode.... but we do observe stuff with things other than photons..... like atomic force microscopy..... and stuff like electron microscopes.... and other sort of detectors
then... then, perhaps interaction of different forces/particles is what observation is? if that were the case then i guess a molecule would observe itself, wouldnt it ._. a;lkjh;aldkfjh man this always confused me, i read a book on quantum theory years ago and there was just one page on it, where this one scientist asked the question of what observation even is ;-;
+Rena Cava Thank you for asking that critical question! That is exactly why I am fruatrated when most people refer to a "collapsing quantum wave function" with reference to observation. "Observation" is never sufficiently defined. 10 points to Gryffindor!
The only question I have is why I have been unaware of your channel up until now? The subjects you cover and the way in which you explore them perfectly emulates the patterns of thinking I enjoy engaging in. Never before have I been so glad that I chose to procrastinate finishing a philosophy essay in order to binge UA-cam videos in the early hours of a Tuesday morning.
Hey Isaac I just wanted to say that your videos have been exactly the sort of science and sci-fi exploration content I can always go for when I want something to think for a bit and a great source of scientific inspiration!
I thought I just explained what made me say that. If decisions are the result of quantum processes which are completely random, then adding an RNG website into the recipe isn't going to add further randomness. Although, I will qualify that if you're truly going to go with whatever outcome the RNG numbers decide, then you might have a little more randomness. Because that would take out our preferences and experiences from the equation.
I didn't have anything, but all this talk of quantum breakfast made me feel like cooking dinner after watching the video. So I made some rice with carrots and onions, eggs with sausage, and added some leftover mashed potatoes, and ate it while watching your psychohistory video. Was that... also quantum food?
If there were to be infinite universes with infinite possibilities and it's possible to move between them, wouldn't we have been visited by someone from an infinite universe due to the huge number of them?
It would seem that the very fact that someone arrives from another universe would already be enough of an event to cause another split. So sending someone creates a universe in which that someone never arrived. Then you can send someone to the universe where they didn't arrive, and create yet another universe where the new person also didn't arrive.
@@davidwuhrer6704 there isn't enough information available to make a calculation that could be perceived by any stretch of the imagination as accurate. Seeing as though the number of instances that the apparent laws of physics in this universe aren't randomly broken is constantly going up for every instance that you think of an 'impossible' thing occurring.
Come on, Isaac: I seriously dig your channel, but you're seriously missing out if you haven't busted out a paranoid android reference yet :) SHARE AND ENJOY!
This is probably the tenth time I'm watching this. Thank Dog for for brilliant minds like this. Thank ye Isaac. You're a light, man. More like you please...
"I don't like to think about it" is the very reason I think it is true on a very absolute level. When even someone of your intelligence can be induced to reject the obvious because of your emotions you know you are on to something.
Not really. Because ours isn't connected to theirs via infinity. Or we would have infinite dimension hoppers n time travelers, flooding our universe from every angle or something stupid like that.
@@mimszanadunstedt441 maybe, maybe not, for all we know, by quantum randomness, the universe hoppers just never arrive here and thus it appears to be impossible
"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and make it finite... The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the (physicists) who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. " Can anyone guess the author? He is the greatest writer of the 20th Century.
G. K. Chesterton. He was a great mind that wrote on everything and in every way; novels, biographies, poems, histories, essays, journalism, apologetics, debates, newspaper articles, etc. I can't recommend him enough. To argue with Chesterton is to lose and such the modern world ignores him.
I brought this many worlds idea up to my parents when I was 8, about 20 years ago. They were drinking and needless to say were completely confused as to why their 8 year old son was asking such questions. I wish they would have put me into physics early. I encourage parents to look for signs in their children that have an interest in this. Problem is, most adults don't know what physics even entails.
I put all your videos on my "Watch Later" list, and this is the video I've been anticipating the most :D I didn't know anything about Pirate Planet! I started watching the Dirk Gently show, but it's one of those shows that requires me to be in the mood for it. It's not bad, and I guess they keep Adam's type of humor intact...mostly. It's just not the same. Butterfly effect does work that way, but did you know it was a concept originating in weather. It's to illustrate how small wind patterns accrue over time; "If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, we have a hurricane."
I am flattered, but you will still suffer an eternity of spontaneous combustion if you do not ally yourself with the holy quantum chocolate covered locust, now pray to it, and use me as your pylon in doing so!
Free will is what it feels like when you can't predict your own behavior perfectly. Identity is a useful construct. I feel both of these, but I know, deep down, that they're both approximations of phenomena far simpler in concept, but vastly greater in scale. On the other hand, sanity? Also an approximation. These things are perfectly cromulent, but you can't really perform logic on them. Reality just isn't that clean.
We separate ourselves away from reality. We think of each object as a distinct 'thing' when in fact a thing is really defined how it interacts with the environment and the repercussions of even a cheese burger is fully interconnected with all of the universe constantly at the speed of light. It is impossible to fully describe any subset of the universe, Truth only exist as the highest most level of scale... well beyond the comprehension of any possible being.Through abstraction our brains are able generate a useful approximation; but fundamentally our understanding will always be incomplete.
Can the Sun with all the extreme amount of light and photons inside its core create enough random / parerns to create its own Boltzmann Brains inside itself? Could the Sun and other celestial bodies actually be conscious and living but humans can't relate, see, or interact with these other life forms?
It _could_ (with a ten to the negative [very big number here] probability, but still…), but in nearly all universes (again, all but ten^-[big] of all cases where it does emerge at all) it would immediately collapse again due to the fact that it is now a consciousness _surrounded by a huge, continuous thermonuclear explosion_ !
Sounds as thought you are asking how to solve an unknown paradox. The answer being you would not know even if said life was screaming it's photons at you.
"It may be impossible to prove or disprove [the many words interpretation]" But according to the many worlds interpretation, there are some universes out there where proving it is so easy that we did so before we invented farming Also, there are worlds where the many world interpretation has been conclusively disproven beyond all doubt
please... i need help! in a past video about colony ships i believe, arthur mentions lab rats escape and thrive, allowing cats into habitats to hunt them, then dogs, because their are cats, and finally ferrets because (and i quote) "they are more useful."........... how is a ferret more useful!!??!!
A cat is too big to get into all the places rats can go, a dog is also too big and can't climb very well, a ferret is small enough and the right shape and has the ability to climb.
@@TheRedRuin Isn't that the exact thinking that led some island nation to add a ferret problem to their rat problem, since one of them is nocturnal and the other isn't and they effectively never met?
Entropy Zero, People train ferrets to hunt and kill rats, they aren't wild ferrets. Releasing a new wild species into an ecosystem isn't usually a good idea, it's lazy for one.
Love the way you talk, it keeps your attention. I figured out it’s your R’s you have a problem with and wondered if you ever tried working on your r’s. Keep up the great videos! !
Really love your channel! So glad to have found it now, Feb 2021c because there’s so many episodes to binge watch or listen to and discuss with my kids. At 9, 5, 4, and 2 they don’t understand all of it; but they are certainly enjoying it.
imagine if mitochondria never got stuck in our cells... or if animals developed a sort of chlorophyll, of course this is glossing over the fact that life (at least "here" & "now") is pretty young, so given a few billion more years maybe these sorts of things would be seen in a way, one may even see organisms with iron as a common element in their biochemistry, as in, actually used in biological building blocks, or as structural integrity ect. or perhaps graphene used in natural neurological systems (as if the distribution of natural matters much on such grand time scales) for super fast data processing, perhaps even multicellular life that not only can survive in molten rock, but also thrives and lives there, eating the molten rock as food, this may all sound extreme, but life is still young, and evolution on a grand scale is slow, so just because we don't see these things now doesn't mean they won't or couldn't've happen(ed).
as it stands, elephants are 36 times less likely to get cancer than us due to 36 times more of a certain gene, and tardigrades are significantly more resistant to radiation damage (particularly genetic damage) due to a protein they produce, as well as many other examples of extremes.
0:33 Thank you so much. I love these episodes, but as bad as I feel about it, that's a big problem for me. I didn't know you added custom captions to these. Thanks!
lol nice^^ isaac reached the state of beeing a "YouTubiverse"... all recomendations on the right site are "isaac arthur video tubes", unlike most other channels i do not search desperately for a "wormhole" or use the hyperjumpdrive to leave this youtubiverse!...gues sthat is a proof that his work is reasonably valuable or at least highly entertaininG**)
Ah yes. Infinities. The topic where you can have a parallel planet, minus people, and someone will tell you that there will not be enough such free planets in multiverse for all the hungry universes wanting it for themselves. Except for each perceivable scenario, it takes just one more scenario, and the resulting intersection will start spewing few more infinite randomness. For each earth minus people, there is a universe where someone from an alternate universe settled it, and at the same time did not. A universe where two such civilization settled it at the same time, and war broke off, wiping the planet clean and ready for use again. It is not infinity that is finite. It is our imagination.
With the many world duplicates of me I just consider them as related. Like maybe we’re connected from whatever we spawned from but we’ve grown separated and will continue to spawn new versions, each more distant from their spawned siblings and spawned cousins. Not me but similar.
I have a little problem with this. The set of even positive integers is infinite. You would go on forever and never run out of them. But that set does not include the numbers 2,4,8, or 16 It does not include -1, or the state of Nebraska. if you have a die numbered 1-7 skipping 2, you can roll it forever, and it will never come up with a 2. Being infinite does not mean without boundary.
+Enforcer Ridley Are you saying that all uncountable infinities are equal? Well, let me introduce you to the concepts of real numbers (an uncountably infinite set of numbers) and complex numbers (a different uncountably infinite set of numbers that includes, but is not limited to, the set of real numbers). So really, you could just edit your reply and remove the word "countable", since it doesn't alter the truth value of your statement.
+@@enforcerridley158 +theuncalledfor Actually, the countable infinities _are_ all equal(ly big), while the uncountable ones aren't necessarily. (The countable ones are, by definition of the term "countable", all mappable to the natural numbers and thus each other, while (e.g.) ℝxℝ is strictly bigger than ℝ, but exactly the same size as ℂ) Not that any of that has anything to do with +pmsteamrailroading 's point though. If I understand you correctly, you have a problem with the video including seemingly "impossible" outcomes in those infinite universes, right? Well, think of it like rolling a gigantic die which has a side for every real number. Now, it is virtually guaranteed by the virtue of probability that you'll never roll an integer. But that doesn't mean that it is actually _impossible_ to roll an integer, just that you would never expect to actually see one within your lifetime of rolling. Now consider the fact of quantum tunnelling and other quantum phenomena that can, with a very small chance, mean that a particle isn't where (or even what) you would expect it to be with any sane probability. And combine a whole bunch of those together, enough to turn all the wood molecules (what _is_ wood actually made of? 0o) in your bookshelf into gold atoms the very moment you flick your light switch. Obviously, this outcome is so ridiculously unlikely as to effectively call it "impossible" for all intents and purposes in our world, but the important word here is "effectively". Because once you consider there to be a world for every _possible_ outcome, no matter how unlikely, there _will_ be a world in which your ℝ-sided die rolls a '42' and there _will_ be a world where your bookshelf turns into gold. Now expand this view: Don't just roll one of these dice but an infinite number of them. Sure, the likelihood of your initial die rolling a '42' is still negligible, but since you don't care about all the other dice, there are still an infinite number of possible rolls of all the dice combined where your initial die rolled a '42'. Likewise, since your bookshelf randomly turning to gold is completely independent of your neighbor's golden watch turning into wood (and any number of more or less likely quantum events all over the universe), there still is an infinite number of universes where you suddenly find yourself insanly rich by virtue of quantum weirdness.
@@enforcerridley158 Nope, you're wrong. I asked a question and gave you opportunity to answer it. You can say things indirectly by implying them, and your statement implied, ambiguously, that uncountable infinities are all equal, which they are not. Your reply right now heavily implies that the aforementioned implication was unintentional.
Great as always! I actually just made cheese burgers (veggie) for the fam tonight! I love going back to watch your older episodes, this is such an interesting channel.
Also, the perfect boltzmann brain is the only one being discussed here stepping forth from the phone booth after vaporizing themselves. There is a near-infinite spectrum of similar vaporized persons with near-perfect or very imperfect sets of memories that will similarly materialize in another time and place, infinitely scaling up the probability that such an event will take place as they will all consider themselves to be the ones who entered the phone booth to begin with
"The quantum cheeseburger will have fundamentally altered your destiny." I never thought that I'd hear that sentence, but I'm unsurprised that I heard it first from you.
He got ONLY Tomato in that burger anyway 🙂😇🥰😄
I've proved Copenhagen effect to myself every time I try to plug in a usb. It is always the wrong way around until you look at it.
Same 🤨
nah, usb just has 1/3 spin
@@MidnightSt that was pretty high brow
I got around 90%. Let's work out the global average!
its because they dont make some usbs to have a this side up design.
If all physical possibilities exist in some sense, then there is one in which Isaac Arthur is hiding behind you *right now*.
Who else looked behind and genuinely thought they were going to see Isaac?
in some universes, we ARE isaac arthur
That's an interesting thought though. If there's a universe where your parents simply named you Isaac Arthur, then I suppose yes you are Isaac Arthur in that universe, but is it possible for **you** to ever be Isaac Arthur? If you were born with the same exact physical make-up and shared the exact same experiences as Isaac Arthur could you possibly still be you, and not Isaac Arthur?
There is also the factor that in one improbability, you could miraculously go through a quantum change and become Isaac Arthur in a nanosecond. This has the added effect of probably adding two Isaac Arthur's in the universe, both of which will have to duel to the death on the planet Frogstar B in a desperate scrap for survival in an eternal universe which cannot support two Isaac Arthur's at once.
Has anyone ever witnessed a metal atom turning into a sugar molecule, or any such thing? I mean; I know about nuclear decay as far as protons turning into neutrons, but turning metal to sugar involves a lot more then that. A lot of this episode seems to be predicated on impossible things being, simply astronomically unlikely. Not shore I buy that.
All this has left me feeling drunk.
What's so bad about being drunk? Just ask a glass of water.
It is unpleasant to be aware of the fact that one is in the process of being drunk.
Well, better late than never. At least you can take solace in the fact that your life has been a pleasant one so far. (Unless, of course, your life has not been so pleasant, which, considering the circumstances, seems more likely. In which case, you can take solace that the horror is almost over. Every cloud has a silver lining (except a mushroom cloud, which to behold is truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience).)
I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!
@@slevinchannel7589 It's a reference to The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
If you would of selected the quantum Clam Chowder, I would of died from an allergic reaction and my fate would have been seriously impacted!
I have an ironic feeling that Adams didn't realise when he used his imagination to make fun of science, he was actually hitting on highly pertinent theoretical ideas in the light of quantum experiments.
It seems you're from the universe where "of" and "have" are synonymous. I'm from the apostrope uviverse 've
Two would ofs and one would have. Interesting.
@@roberthofmann8403 variety is the spice of life.
It's would HAVE.
Would. HAVE.
I took your advice and flicked on the light switch and my chair just turned into a bunch of gold ingots!
Thanks Isaac Arthur.
Not as tasty, nor as holy as the quantum chocolate covered locust!
mine turned to shit.
I did the same, but for me the light just came on. Oh Many Worlds, why do you taunt me?
I got a rock.
Praise R'n'Jeasus
Kinda odd for breakfast but alright.
Cody'sLab Didn't expect you to be here! xD
Appreciation for Cody intensifies
I wonder whether this video will affect you as a person for the rest of the day or not.
If it's Cody's breakfast, that quantum cheeseburger is probably dipped in mercury, laced with cyanide, and with a side-dish of chewable indium.
Cody why'd you change your upside down profile picture ?
I feel you've become much easier to understand in recent videos. You're speaking with more confidence and it makes you easier to follow.
Also, love your content and agree with commenters saying you should write a book.
Novel, fictive non-fiction or a collection of essays that you wrote, I'd probably enjoy reading it.
That and after having listened to him for over a dozen episodes I hardly hear it anymore so part acclamation part confidence. Definitely thought provoking.
Anyone who focuses on his voice is missing the wonderful content. This is one of the best channels on UA-cam.
Greetings from the Quantum Chimichanga Reality!
Quantum hard candies
Well it happened. I bought a cheesburger.
With bacon.
Instructions unclear. I married a cheeseburger.
Instructions too clear, the cheeseburger was yummy
All hail the quantum cheeseburger
No one could have predicted the quantum cheeseburger!
@ Fig Bender
In one of the many worlds....I did.
Heed not the cheeseburger lovers! The chimichanga is the true quantum lunch meal! Do not be led astray by over sized bread products!
Mr. Pig Where is my quantum ketchup?
Fig Bender u can also do a quantum baby
@isaac Arthur
how about an episode about what realistic options for alien biology are?
i hear so much about "methane"-lifeforms or "silicon-based-Lifeforms" or "liquid-ammonuim"-lifeforms and youre the best at sorting the trash from the gems.
Maybe its even worth a series
Can tell you right now that silicon doesnt form naturalbonds, so chances are silicon based-lifeforms are a product of something
One episode had a slide listing some hypothetical alternative biochemisties. I still shiver thinking about "hydrogen flouride" at the bottom of that list. That's just a terrifying thought to me.
I also would like to see this one
That, would be a fun way too light up those long dormant neurons from my days studying microbiology. Id imagine anything not carbon based would have to be very primitive, like prokaryote like at best.
Infiritthor that would be fantastic.
It would be interesting to see how creatures with vastly different biology would even determine if we were alive or not.
Or, keeping to the topic of today, they're from fluid space universe, where stars are condensed, fusing, and doing their thing, but in a fluid. Sort of like the not too explored ending of Pacific Rim or in Star Trek Voyager.
The physics of that is making me drool.
This is the universe where I found this channel.
*basically the best universe*
Well in one you can fly...
There are of course other universes where you found this channel, but other things might have changed.
What about the universe where we're experiencing the theories as reality - all of them? 😎
There are an infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1. None of them are 3.
Except for the place where they are - the Twilight Zone.
I love the casual way you say that: "...cheeseburgers, even ones with bacon on them, which is better..." The "which is better" was stated in such a matter of fact way, no arguments considered. It just is better because: BACON!!!!
Of course, I agree and second that opinion. Voting is not necessary.
I have a scientific theory on why bacon tastes so good.
It tastes so good because it is made out of bacon.
But the pig that bacon comes from was contaminated by a bat and a pigeon having sex over the butchers' area. a feather fell onto it. I think you know where this goes.
Pigs are a miracle because they turn VEGETABLES INTO BACON!
I enjoyed this episode over a nice cup of Brownian motion generator.
Also known as coffee
That's good, since masks use it to catch COVID viruses. Oh wait.
Screw it... I'm going to get a cheese burger...
The Fate of the universe depends on it!
You fool, your decision killed a whole reality somewhere
It sounds like a man being chased by a pack of wolves while gargling a glass of water.
SOMEBODY has to make the big sacrifice!
Don't smoke this cigarette. Fate of the universe depends on it.
you might end up getting married, having kids, mortgage, job you hate, etc... then years later, doctor finds a problem, turns to you and asks, "Have you ever eaten a cheeseburger?"
I found hitchhikers a very hard book to read, especially while I was rolling around on the floor laughing.
I literally started the episode over just so I could hear Isaac Arthur casually talk about Quantum Cheeseburgers.
Damn, that idea of using a quantum number generator to dictate your choice of meal as a way to prove how the seemingly random events of quantum stuff can truly affect the macroscopic world was 100% genius.
I applaud you, Mr. Arthur. Great content as always. You explain things so thouroughly, you make it easy for us to understand, and you always drop straight 🔥🔥 with the consistent uploads!
Isaac, You are the first content creator on youtube i feel bad I can't donate too. I love the effort you put in and how at the end of a 40 min video that clearly a lot of time went into you are thanking others and thanking the audience. It's a pleasure to listen to your videos man.
When I listened to you talking about the quantum cheeseburger, I thought to myself that it's a fascinating concept and I wanted to visit it in my own writing, except to make it different, I'd call it the quantum chimichanga. And then you said quantum chimichanga. Blew my mind.
wasn't there a movie about this, somewhat, Run, Laura, run? all based on whether she caught a train or not, and the consequences of it.
HERETIC
@@Rkenton48 I think you mean Run Lola Run, interesting film!
@@MatthewTheStrogg234 ah yes. wonder if it would have fared differently at the box office had they used the name Laura... hm...
@@Rkenton48 I'm pretty sure you were actually thinking of 'Sliding Doors' and also the name of the film 'Run Lola Run'.
Was legit taking a bite of doughnut when you said “Some are eating it now”.
Actually this is the first time I'm leaving this topic with fewer questions
Your ability to articulate never ceases to amaze:)
Yooo Issac, I could kill for a quantum chimichanga right now.
Buy Schrodinger's Chimichanga at a pub near you. You can haz your chimi and you can eats your chimi but can you do both?
IN SOME UNIVERSE YOU DID KILL FOR THAT CHIMI
omg, that chimi looked soooo goooood
Those are wicked tasty.
@@beartankoperator7950 And in others, he was killed for it, and you were the killer.
Can I get fries with my Quantum cheeseburger?
Depends on interpretation, the answers is either yes, no, or a superposition of fry-states until observed.
Isaac Arthur Lol
_A_ = _yes + i * no_
fsmoura I'm dying
I'm writing this comment to let you know that I went to the pub, bought a quantum cheeseburger and a pint of quantum beer, and met the guy/girl of my dreams.
That was fast :)
Some would even say that it is improbably fast.
Alexander...
In that case I'm ditching my diet and buying the Triple Coronary Bypass Burger, tomorrow.
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"That was fast"
That's what she said. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Alexander Abrams-Flohr a quantum beer is both filled and empty at the same time.
As a Greek I can tell you that in your channel, science meets philosophy.
I'm glad this universe's Isaac got a cold and took the quantum NyQuil. His channel is amazing.
"To be or not to be" is no question anymore :)
"You are PREPARED!"
It is still a question, but mortality may soon be optional for some.
If you had forever in the whole universe, (a version of) you might still contemplate suicide, and eventually we would encounter a similar issue to the ship of Theseus wherein (all of) you had had too many different experiences, and become a different (set of) person(s).
Lol, yeah, it is closer to a statement of fact
To be AND not to be
Soulism in a nutshell
I almost forgot its Arthursday today! And then i saw this upload...
Pure joy! Maximum happiness! :)
towelday is may 25th
I liked this intro!
I prefer the moving without moving (Dune) method of travel. SNG also did this too. Much better "bending" space rather than being killed and being reassemble somewhere nearby.
Son: So dad, how did you and mum meet?
Me: *shows video
I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series :D
no
noone else likes it
especially not one this space loving channel
you like baity disgusting hoovooloo
As do I.
Hey, you sass that hoopy Isaac Arthur? There's a frood who knows where his towel is.
best story by far was the restaurant at the end of the universe.
I finished the Restaurant at the end of the Universe for the first time a couple of weeks ago
There is only two infinite things: human stupidity and the constant growth of the amount of Pokémon.
They say correlation does not equal causality but in this case I think they may be wrong.
It takes a certain kind of intellect to look at a pile of trash and think "just what I need on my squad of electric rodents and flying whales."
Mike A taxes are a infinite waste used to fill an endless void also human stupidity will never die! I miss RJD
Peter Villa Or on your squad of living rocks, industrial waste and giant worms.
In the words of Gennaro Contaldo: Why ise dis commente section so gooood?
Anyone for a "Pan Galactic Gargle-blaster?"
gjpyoung I don’t remember, so I must have already had one.
Sure, but where do I get therapy afterwards?
im not sure if i want the feeling of having my brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
That old Janxx spirit
Two please.
I saw Tom Baker at a book signing once, and there was a 'real' Dalek in the bookstore... which sidled up to me and looked at me with its periscope... a very creepy experience. Tom Baker is the best Doctor Who in my opinion, too.
I can imagine. I'd like to meet him sometime, a few other folks have mentioned bumping into him and usually describe him as exactly as interesting and pleasant as one would expect.
If you or someone else happens to like Tom Baker and Elite: Dangerous, there's a voice pack for Elite featuring him, playing the role of a former scientist who "ascended" by uploading his mind and consciousness to a computer, and has since then somehow travelled the universe, and happens to take a temporary residence on your ship's computer. The pack is called Midnight if somebody is interested to take a look.
David Tennant did a good job. Lot like a younger version of Baker. His reunion with Sarah Jane Smith was one of the best episodes ever.
the fact that you made a video about this and psychohistory so close together is incredible. My favorite youtuber making videos about my two favorite science fiction series, what gets better than this?
Quantum randomizer link? I need to make a very big decision in my life and I want that if i'm wrong atleast the me from the alternate timeline could live better.
That is... rather useful way of making decisions. If many worlds interpretation is correct that is,
Samuel Nayman
does this actually make a difference? whether you use the number generator or not, quantum randomness happens and creates every scenario.
I believe Random.org is one example. And, since people have used it to determine the outcomes of competitions, well...
Haodong Mo random.org uses atmosperic noise...not really quantum randomness
Your comment blew my mind as you some how made indecision, almost altruistic.
And here I was,,, played up video and started eating my lunch only to find out Issac predetermined it.
Me too, only I had none of the six choices he mentioned. I was eating baked chicken.
In another universe, there was no Quantum Cheeseburger, it was Quantum Baked Chicken the whole time.
+EclipseClemens - LOL
I still vouch in the holy name of the quantum chocolate covered locust!
Same here, but I had the Quantum Bratwurst...
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ *PRAISE QUANTUM CHEESEBORGOR* ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ All Hail the Universe Emperor of this Alternate Reality ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
PS: Resistance is futile.
fsmoura cheeseborgor
HOW LONG DID THIS TAKE TO DO!?
Like some minutes?!?@@RealmsSMPStudios
Ahhh, Isaac, thank you so much for making this video! I've only relatively recently become a subscriber to your channel, but I'm very much digging it, and this particular video encapsulates precisely my concerns with Many Worlds theory, which so many writers seem to love. Huge numbers, much bigger than what we ever imagine when we contemplate infinity, yet finite. Great stuff!
Thanks Stephen, and welcome to the Channel!
I just want you to know that I love listening to your stuff to wind down. It’s so interesting and it helps me take my mind off of all the stress just imagining the words you say. Thanks bro.
Dammit Issac, you are quantum influencing me to go buy a cheeseburger now. I was going to eat a granola bar originally. I think ill need to use your ANU server now.
Nick T you influenced me not to have a cheese burger. that was lunch yesterday.
My favourite of *ALL* the (possibly infinite) YT channels! I'm off for a cheeseburger...or am I?
something i've really wondered but never really been answered about is um, what defines observation? can one atom observe another? or is it considered interaction with light? is light in fluctuation when not in observation, even if its the observer? im so confused ;-;
Rena Cava Observation, when used in this sense speaking of quantum effects, means observation by a consciousness, through any means. It does not imply visual sight. Essentially, observation means "the information has been noted".
See also for reference, double slit experiment, and then more specifically the quantum eraser double slit experiment. If the double slit experiment showing the wave and particle behavior of an electron isn't weird enough, the addition of a quantum eraser will make you scratch your head.
Rena Cava that would be an interesting episode.... but we do observe stuff with things other than photons..... like atomic force microscopy..... and stuff like electron microscopes.... and other sort of detectors
then... then, perhaps interaction of different forces/particles is what observation is? if that were the case then i guess a molecule would observe itself, wouldnt it ._. a;lkjh;aldkfjh man this always confused me, i read a book on quantum theory years ago and there was just one page on it, where this one scientist asked the question of what observation even is ;-;
Could question Rena, we have absolutely no idea, or at least several competing thoughts on the topic with no proof either way.
+Rena Cava Thank you for asking that critical question! That is exactly why I am fruatrated when most people refer to a "collapsing quantum wave function" with reference to observation. "Observation" is never sufficiently defined. 10 points to Gryffindor!
The only question I have is why I have been unaware of your channel up until now? The subjects you cover and the way in which you explore them perfectly emulates the patterns of thinking I enjoy engaging in. Never before have I been so glad that I chose to procrastinate finishing a philosophy essay in order to binge UA-cam videos in the early hours of a Tuesday morning.
Hey Isaac I just wanted to say that your videos have been exactly the sort of science and sci-fi exploration content I can always go for when I want something to think for a bit and a great source of scientific inspiration!
Universe 8675309 sounds like a good time, ;)
Got to be better than C137
I like universe 5318008
Andrew Lynch I wonder if all females are named "Jenny". 😂
Andrew Lynch : now that's some good shit!!! You won the internet for the day in my universe!
Universe 8675309 is only two dimensional. The whole thing was drawn on the wall of the bathroom
Man, you don't need to make ado about your speech patter. What you're saying dramatically removes the focus from it.
wascally wabbits
So a quantum RNG website is essentially a machine that makes our universe less deterministic.
Well, kind of, but it's just an amplifier.
Theoretically, it should do nothing. Your decisions should already be the result of "random" quantum processes already.
@david what makes you say that?
I thought I just explained what made me say that. If decisions are the result of quantum processes which are completely random, then adding an RNG website into the recipe isn't going to add further randomness.
Although, I will qualify that if you're truly going to go with whatever outcome the RNG numbers decide, then you might have a little more randomness. Because that would take out our preferences and experiences from the equation.
David Thompson
what makes you think that decisions not based on a quantum rng website are the result of random quantum fluctuations?
Oddly enough, there is a book called Quantum Cheeseburger, where basically a dude orders a Cheeseburger, and it begins a Multiverse Ending Event…
I didn't have anything, but all this talk of quantum breakfast made me feel like cooking dinner after watching the video. So I made some rice with carrots and onions, eggs with sausage, and added some leftover mashed potatoes, and ate it while watching your psychohistory video. Was that... also quantum food?
*Really* looking forward to the psychohistory analysis!
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
Say true, say thankya.
How did you know I want to eat a cheeseburger?
He has a quantum ball, into which he stared deeply this morning, and saw it.
Good, quality content, AND you upload often. How are you still under 100k?? You deserve more subs.
Another fantastic video! Keep up the terrific work, Isaac.
Have you read Terry Pratchett's and Steven Baxter's Long Earth books?
Love those, and and Gaiman did it with the Interworld series (and the first one was supposed to be a TV Pilot spec script...)
It was the first thing I thought of when he brought up colonizing alternate Earths :D
Same.
If there were to be infinite universes with infinite possibilities and it's possible to move between them, wouldn't we have been visited by someone from an infinite universe due to the huge number of them?
Theres also the probability you're in a universe that never gets visited. And infinite is a veeeeeeeeeery big number : )
It would seem that the very fact that someone arrives from another universe would already be enough of an event to cause another split. So sending someone creates a universe in which that someone never arrived.
Then you can send someone to the universe where they didn't arrive, and create yet another universe where the new person also didn't arrive.
@@theuncalledfor What is the probability that we live in that universe where a virtual infinity of visitors from alternate realities didn't arrive?
@@davidwuhrer6704 there isn't enough information available to make a calculation that could be perceived by any stretch of the imagination as accurate. Seeing as though the number of instances that the apparent laws of physics in this universe aren't randomly broken is constantly going up for every instance that you think of an 'impossible' thing occurring.
@@lr1a704 Using theuncalledfor's assumptions.
Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they want me to hail the quantum cheeseburger...
Life. Don't talk to me about life.
Surprisingly I don't think I've ever dropped a joke about Marvin on the channel
Come on, Isaac: I seriously dig your channel, but you're seriously missing out if you haven't busted out a paranoid android reference yet :)
SHARE AND ENJOY!
I actually have that song memorized :)
You're essentially talking about modded stellaris in this series
This is probably the tenth time I'm watching this. Thank Dog for for brilliant minds like this. Thank ye Isaac. You're a light, man. More like you please...
"I don't like to think about it" is the very reason I think it is true on a very absolute level. When even someone of your intelligence can be induced to reject the obvious because of your emotions you know you are on to something.
Yeah it's a rather silly reason to reject something.
I'm really looking forward to the Boltzmann Brain episode.
I concur in all my holiness as the high priest-god of the ever-holy-er quantum chocolate covered locust.
Ah, an Isaac Arthur notification. Time to make some coffee! :)
and eat holy quantum chocolate covered locust.
If there are infinite universes then Rule 34 can rejoice, for more than one reason. ;)
Not really. Because ours isn't connected to theirs via infinity. Or we would have infinite dimension hoppers n time travelers, flooding our universe from every angle or something stupid like that.
@@mimszanadunstedt441 maybe, maybe not, for all we know, by quantum randomness, the universe hoppers just never arrive here and thus it appears to be impossible
Funnily enough, I ate today's cheeseburger a few hours before watching this video, I guess that means I have superpowers
So I just found this channel, and I have to say, I love it. Such great little trips through concepts of Sci-Fi.
"Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and make it finite... The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the (physicists) who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. " Can anyone guess the author? He is the greatest writer of the 20th Century.
Don't mind me just want to know the answers
G. K. Chesterton. He was a great mind that wrote on everything and in every way; novels, biographies, poems, histories, essays, journalism, apologetics, debates, newspaper articles, etc. I can't recommend him enough. To argue with Chesterton is to lose and such the modern world ignores him.
and a quantum poet physicist wants to both, have his head into the heavens and the heavens into his head and at the same time
Harold Robbins? Dan Brown? Oh... Chesterton, Yeah he was good too.
He probably wrote that to throw his harsh exterior into sharp relief.
You actually convinced me to get a cheeseburger today
More Eagles and 70s rock in the Issac Arthur soundtrack! Also shout out to sliders and rock and morty.
I brought this many worlds idea up to my parents when I was 8, about 20 years ago. They were drinking and needless to say were completely confused as to why their 8 year old son was asking such questions. I wish they would have put me into physics early. I encourage parents to look for signs in their children that have an interest in this. Problem is, most adults don't know what physics even entails.
I put all your videos on my "Watch Later" list, and this is the video I've been anticipating the most :D I didn't know anything about Pirate Planet! I started watching the Dirk Gently show, but it's one of those shows that requires me to be in the mood for it. It's not bad, and I guess they keep Adam's type of humor intact...mostly. It's just not the same.
Butterfly effect does work that way, but did you know it was a concept originating in weather. It's to illustrate how small wind patterns accrue over time; "If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, we have a hurricane."
You all are my kinda nerds.
:-)
I am flattered, but you will still suffer an eternity of spontaneous combustion if you do not ally yourself with the holy quantum chocolate covered locust, now pray to it, and use me as your pylon in doing so!
Free will is what it feels like when you can't predict your own behavior perfectly. Identity is a useful construct. I feel both of these, but I know, deep down, that they're both approximations of phenomena far simpler in concept, but vastly greater in scale.
On the other hand, sanity? Also an approximation. These things are perfectly cromulent, but you can't really perform logic on them. Reality just isn't that clean.
We separate ourselves away from reality. We think of each object as a distinct 'thing' when in fact a thing is really defined how it interacts with the environment and the repercussions of even a cheese burger is fully interconnected with all of the universe constantly at the speed of light. It is impossible to fully describe any subset of the universe, Truth only exist as the highest most level of scale... well beyond the comprehension of any possible being.Through abstraction our brains are able generate a useful approximation; but fundamentally our understanding will always be incomplete.
@@judgeomega
_> Truth only exist as the highest most level of scale_
So what you say here is in effect not true?
Can the Sun with all the extreme amount of light and photons inside its core create enough random / parerns to create its own Boltzmann Brains inside itself? Could the Sun and other celestial bodies actually be conscious and living but humans can't relate, see, or interact with these other life forms?
It _could_ (with a ten to the negative [very big number here] probability, but still…), but in nearly all universes (again, all but ten^-[big] of all cases where it does emerge at all) it would immediately collapse again due to the fact that it is now a consciousness _surrounded by a huge, continuous thermonuclear explosion_ !
Sounds as thought you are asking how to solve an unknown paradox. The answer being you would not know even if said life was screaming it's photons at you.
You might very well be the only person I have seen on UA-cam that gives the correct definition of the big bang
For some reason, the fact that this entire show was spawned from a Nyquil trip is the most hilariously satisfying thing.
"It may be impossible to prove or disprove [the many words interpretation]"
But according to the many worlds interpretation, there are some universes out there where proving it is so easy that we did so before we invented farming
Also, there are worlds where the many world interpretation has been conclusively disproven beyond all doubt
also yes. its thursday again :D
arThursday
jet flaque I don't know. I never could quite get the hang of Thursdays.
'OurThursday arThursday!' ;D
Yellow.
jet flaque I could never get the hang of Thursday's
please... i need help! in a past video about colony ships i believe, arthur mentions lab rats escape and thrive, allowing cats into habitats to hunt them, then dogs, because their are cats, and finally ferrets because (and i quote) "they are more useful."........... how is a ferret more useful!!??!!
A cat is too big to get into all the places rats can go, a dog is also too big and can't climb very well, a ferret is small enough and the right shape and has the ability to climb.
@@TheRedRuin Isn't that the exact thinking that led some island nation to add a ferret problem to their rat problem, since one of them is nocturnal and the other isn't and they effectively never met?
Entropy Zero, People train ferrets to hunt and kill rats, they aren't wild ferrets. Releasing a new wild species into an ecosystem isn't usually a good idea, it's lazy for one.
Love the way you talk, it keeps your attention. I figured out it’s your R’s you have a problem with and wondered if you ever tried working on your r’s. Keep up the great videos! !
I scroll and I scroll and I scroll, but NO ONE mentions that insane, unique speach impediment he has with letter "R"
The fuck is wrong with people
Really love your channel! So glad to have found it now, Feb 2021c because there’s so many episodes to binge watch or listen to and discuss with my kids. At 9, 5, 4, and 2 they don’t understand all of it; but they are certainly enjoying it.
12:38
Thats still lower then a googolplex 😃
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Who told you?
imagine if mitochondria never got stuck in our cells... or if animals developed a sort of chlorophyll, of course this is glossing over the fact that life (at least "here" & "now") is pretty young, so given a few billion more years maybe these sorts of things would be seen in a way, one may even see organisms with iron as a common element in their biochemistry, as in, actually used in biological building blocks, or as structural integrity ect. or perhaps graphene used in natural neurological systems (as if the distribution of natural matters much on such grand time scales) for super fast data processing, perhaps even multicellular life that not only can survive in molten rock, but also thrives and lives there, eating the molten rock as food, this may all sound extreme, but life is still young, and evolution on a grand scale is slow, so just because we don't see these things now doesn't mean they won't or couldn't've happen(ed).
as it stands, elephants are 36 times less likely to get cancer than us due to 36 times more of a certain gene, and tardigrades are significantly more resistant to radiation damage (particularly genetic damage) due to a protein they produce, as well as many other examples of extremes.
I would love to eat a quantum cheeseburger with you sometime.
0:33 Thank you so much. I love these episodes, but as bad as I feel about it, that's a big problem for me. I didn't know you added custom captions to these. Thanks!
I've never been so satisfied with the details, yes u talked about so many things. I love this video
First. In a different universe.
lol nice^^ isaac reached the state of beeing a "YouTubiverse"... all recomendations on the right site are "isaac arthur video tubes", unlike most other channels i do not search desperately for a "wormhole" or use the hyperjumpdrive to leave this youtubiverse!...gues sthat is a proof that his work is reasonably valuable or at least highly entertaininG**)
history of the entire multiverse, i guess
"Taste an endless infinities of the sun"
And also all the suns are DEADLY LAZERS.
Including the ones that are not.
Ah yes. Infinities. The topic where you can have a parallel planet, minus people, and someone will tell you that there will not be enough such free planets in multiverse for all the hungry universes wanting it for themselves.
Except for each perceivable scenario, it takes just one more scenario, and the resulting intersection will start spewing few more infinite randomness.
For each earth minus people, there is a universe where someone from an alternate universe settled it, and at the same time did not. A universe where two such civilization settled it at the same time, and war broke off, wiping the planet clean and ready for use again.
It is not infinity that is finite. It is our imagination.
With the many world duplicates of me I just consider them as related. Like maybe we’re connected from whatever we spawned from but we’ve grown separated and will continue to spawn new versions, each more distant from their spawned siblings and spawned cousins. Not me but similar.
Also... Steins;Gate, anyone?
Did we reached the Steins;Gate worldline?
Dave Null el psy congroo
el psy congroo
*La yoda stalessa*
I have a little problem with this.
The set of even positive integers is infinite. You would go on forever and never run out of them.
But that set does not include the numbers 2,4,8, or 16 It does not include -1, or the state of Nebraska.
if you have a die numbered 1-7 skipping 2, you can roll it forever, and it will never come up with a 2.
Being infinite does not mean without boundary.
pmsteamrailroading Welcome to the world of countable infinities, where not all infinities are equal.
+Enforcer Ridley
Are you saying that all uncountable infinities are equal?
Well, let me introduce you to the concepts of real numbers (an uncountably infinite set of numbers) and complex numbers (a different uncountably infinite set of numbers that includes, but is not limited to, the set of real numbers).
So really, you could just edit your reply and remove the word "countable", since it doesn't alter the truth value of your statement.
+@@enforcerridley158 +theuncalledfor Actually, the countable infinities _are_ all equal(ly big), while the uncountable ones aren't necessarily.
(The countable ones are, by definition of the term "countable", all mappable to the natural numbers and thus each other, while (e.g.) ℝxℝ is strictly bigger than ℝ, but exactly the same size as ℂ)
Not that any of that has anything to do with +pmsteamrailroading 's point though.
If I understand you correctly, you have a problem with the video including seemingly "impossible" outcomes in those infinite universes, right?
Well, think of it like rolling a gigantic die which has a side for every real number. Now, it is virtually guaranteed by the virtue of probability that you'll never roll an integer. But that doesn't mean that it is actually _impossible_ to roll an integer, just that you would never expect to actually see one within your lifetime of rolling.
Now consider the fact of quantum tunnelling and other quantum phenomena that can, with a very small chance, mean that a particle isn't where (or even what) you would expect it to be with any sane probability. And combine a whole bunch of those together, enough to turn all the wood molecules (what _is_ wood actually made of? 0o) in your bookshelf into gold atoms the very moment you flick your light switch. Obviously, this outcome is so ridiculously unlikely as to effectively call it "impossible" for all intents and purposes in our world, but the important word here is "effectively".
Because once you consider there to be a world for every _possible_ outcome, no matter how unlikely, there _will_ be a world in which your ℝ-sided die rolls a '42' and there _will_ be a world where your bookshelf turns into gold.
Now expand this view: Don't just roll one of these dice but an infinite number of them. Sure, the likelihood of your initial die rolling a '42' is still negligible, but since you don't care about all the other dice, there are still an infinite number of possible rolls of all the dice combined where your initial die rolled a '42'. Likewise, since your bookshelf randomly turning to gold is completely independent of your neighbor's golden watch turning into wood (and any number of more or less likely quantum events all over the universe), there still is an infinite number of universes where you suddenly find yourself insanly rich by virtue of quantum weirdness.
@@theuncalledfor "Are you saying that all uncountable infinities are equal?"
Clearly, I said no such thing, rendering your reply a strawman.
@@enforcerridley158
Nope, you're wrong. I asked a question and gave you opportunity to answer it. You can say things indirectly by implying them, and your statement implied, ambiguously, that uncountable infinities are all equal, which they are not. Your reply right now heavily implies that the aforementioned implication was unintentional.
8675309 - Got it!!
Chris Poapst Jenny Jenny who can I turn toooo??!
Great as always! I actually just made cheese burgers (veggie) for the fam tonight! I love going back to watch your older episodes, this is such an interesting channel.
Also, the perfect boltzmann brain is the only one being discussed here stepping forth from the phone booth after vaporizing themselves. There is a near-infinite spectrum of similar vaporized persons with near-perfect or very imperfect sets of memories that will similarly materialize in another time and place, infinitely scaling up the probability that such an event will take place as they will all consider themselves to be the ones who entered the phone booth to begin with