Okay, nice celestial diversions, but it's time to get back to exploring the unique box that QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) opened. Enter Schroedinger's Cat, a 1935 thought experiment by physicist Erwin Schroedinger that seemingly produces a quantum paradox, namely that a cat in a sealed box with a device designed to kill the cat at a random point in time, results in the [unobserved] cat being simultaneously alive and dead at any one point in time. In this so-called "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum mechanics, the cat will eventually die, it's chances increasing over time, but, again, being denied the ability to look into the box and "see," the cat must be regarded as both alive and dead. In essence, the cat over time is mortal and will eventually die. In effect, there is no immortal "soul." I find this interpretation disappointing at the least, disturbing at best. 


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There is another interpretation, however, created by Max Moravic in 1956 called the "Many-worlds interpretation" of "Quantum Suicide." Incorporating M-Superstring theory, which posits the existence of an infinite number of universes (the multiverse), the cat, as long as one doesn't open the box, is indeed simultaneously alive and dead but the "alive" and "dead" cats exist in different universes of the multiverse, each live/die "event" represented by a branching of the cat's universe, the new and old universes not being able to interact with one another. In effect the cat remains alive in some universe, and, like the "soul" is immortal. I find this "Multiverse" or "Many-worlds interpretation" hopeful at the least, joyful at the best. Death, in essence, simply involves the normal decay and loss of one's bodily self in one universe eventually resulting in the transfer of the "soul" to another universe where another physical body exists. Interestingly, in this interpretation, each person's new body and "afterlife" may be considerably different, leading to an infinite number of heavens, hells and in-betweens, and a whole new lifeline. 

In QUANTUM DEATH, brilliant woman scientist and computer expert Kate Keenan, comes up with a further variant of the "Many-worlds interpretation" of the physics behind the Quantum Death Machine, one which transcends the Atomic Age and moves humanity in this universe into the Quantum Age.