Quantum Suicide

I'll share my world with you

Everything that I own

My earthly possessions

What good are they if I'm alone?

I'll give you the sunshine

As it's splashed with morning dew

Can't you see that I'm waiting

To share my world with you?

I'll share my world with you

If you'll be mine alone

I'll give you a new heart

Where you are the only love it's known

I'll give you my two arms

They be reaching if you do

Can't you see that I'm waiting

To share my world with you?

Did you find what you were looking for,

the vacuum tubes or whatever?

Found some things that will be useful,

no tubes yet.

I'm gonna swing by the salvage yard tomorrow

maybe the dump.

Uck!

What?

It's so disgusting that's all.

It's uh... It's kinda fun.

It's like a... a treasure hunt.

Cayman!

Hold on, stop the car!

What? Why?

The CRT!

That television back there,

I can use the electron gun, turn around.

The electron gun?

It's real... it's a real thing.

I know honey.

Pew, pew pew.

6:23pm May 24th, ninth week of testing.

Cumulative dose is nearing 100,000 microsieverts,

thirty times the dose a first-world uranium miner would take in a year.

Chance of cancer up six percent.

Commencing accel sequence

210F proton-rhodium.

Incident particle:

charge one positive,

spin one half.

Rest mass: 936 mega-electronvolts.

The proton.

Ionize.

Atomic reaction:

rhodium.

Execute.

Target particle confirmed:

the W boson.

The accelerator works.

What's wrong?

What?

It works.

Let's celebrate.

Let's go out,

get all dressed up

Cayman.

One night!

I gotta get back to work.

Fine.

Fine.

This is what I know.

Every state is merely a probability mapping.

The observer changes the universe by observing it.

The more precisely you measure any one variable,

the less you know about every other variable.

There is magic in this place.

There are truths without explanation,

facts without logic.

We do not understand.

But the answers are here,

waiting to be found.

Cayman!

Hi Emily.

Did you see my ant farm?

- No. - Look!

I don't see any ants.

It doesn't come with ants.

We bought it at Science World and since they can't sell you live ants

you have to order them and they come in the mail.

Hm...

There are ants everywhere!

I just need to find the queen,

ant colonies can't live without the queen.

Did you know that queens can live for 30 years?

That's a long time for an insect.

Did you know ants can carry 20 times their body weight?

Really?

Yeah.

Good luck Emily.

Bye Cayman.

Point of interest:

neutron interferometry.

Take a neutron splitter,

you shoot a neutron at it:

it deflects it up, or down.

It's a quantum system,

it could go either way.

Then you put particle mirrors along both paths.

Now the neutron gets deflected

whichever way it goes.

And you put detectors at both ends

so you can measure the results.

You shoot a neutron,

it goes up or down

and it ends up at this detector half the time

and this detector the other half.

Or it should, right?

When you run this test

for whatever reason,

one detector never hits,

the other detector hits every time.

It should be 50/50.

Explanations:

none.

Commencing accel sequence 231AL.

Incident particle:

the proton.

Atomic reaction:

thallium.

Execute.

That wasn't supposed to happen.

You can publish!

So what do you think Cayman,

can you fix it?

What was that?

Gen?

What's going on?

Are you there?

Oh my God

Cayman! Cayman!

Oh my God! Baby!

Are you alright?

Come on...

Please

Ahh

-Cayman -Ahh!

Cayman...

Oh thank God!

Cayman

Oh thank God!

Are you okay?

You're not bleeding.

Can you see me? Can you hear me?

Is anything broken?

Did you call them?

What?

Are you fucking listening to me?

You were in an explosion.

I'm fine.

Are you?

Yes, did you call them?

No.

Thank you.

Baby, are you seriously okay?

Yeah.

Oh my God...

They'd shut me down.

I know

I know.

Thank you.

System malfunction

What the hell is wrong with you?

I'm not going to the hospital!

It's me...

I'm the one.

I'm the independent variable.

Ahh!

The eigenvector of theta sub one to theta sub N equals root pi

sub J N sub J factorial over N factorial.

The eigenvector of theta sub one to theta sub N equals root pi.

The eigenvector of theta sub one to theta sub N equals root pi.

Ahh!!

There are 3 distinct types of physics

classical,

relativistic,

and quantum.

Each describes reality on a different scale.

Quantum mechanics deals with the smallest scale.

It says that quantum systems are not definite but probabilistic.

Take a photon,

a single wave-particle of light

traveling at the speed of light.

Let's say we want to measure its position.

Until we make the measurement,

the photon does not have a position

but a certain probability of being in a number of positions,

a wavefunction.

But as soon as we make the measurement,

the wavefunction collapses

and we have a single photon with a single position in space-time.

It is the act of measurement which solidifies the possible into the actual.

There are many theories as to why this occurs

but they are all merely conjecture.

No one knows why this happens.