Vlatko Vedral's interpretation of Parallel Universes

And if every small decision in your life creates a new version of you in another universe, not as a metaphor, but as a real consequence of quantum physics, yes, I know it seems like a movie script, but that is precisely the idea defended by the Oxford physicist, Vlatko Vedral, according to him, the popular interpretation of the so-called observer effect could be completely wrong and perhaps human consciousness does not have any special power over reality.

And for decades, many people interpreted quantum mechanics in the following way, particles exist in multiple states at the same time until someone observes them, at which point reality would choose a single outcome, from there several almost mystical ideas about consciousness creating the universe emerged, but Vlatko Vedral argues that physics does not exactly point towards that.

According to him, quantum collapse does not occur because a conscious mind observed something, it occurs because there was physical interaction, any interaction and a simple example helps to understand it; Imagine a photon hitting your dark glasses, that photon can pass through the lens or reflect off it depending on various quantum conditions, it just doesn't wait for you to perceive the result to decide what to do.

The interaction already occurred before your consciousness even entered the story, but here comes the really strange part, according to Vlatko Vedral, the you that receives that photon is not exactly the same you that did not receive it, at some quantum level, those possibilities continue to exist simultaneously in different paths of reality.

And when you expand the above to all the microscopic interactions that happen every second, the idea becomes almost impossible to imagine, every choice, every movement, every particle interacting with another could generate constant little forks, not necessarily creating totally different cinematic universes, but slightly different versions of reality emerging all the time.

It's as if existence is constantly branching out into infinite parallel possibilities, yes, basically what he's saying is that versions of you and me can exist in parallel universes and can influence our reality here, and perhaps the most uncomfortable thing is realizing that in that interpretation you wouldn't exactly be the center of reality, you'd be just one of countless possible versions going through a specific sequence of quantum events.

Vlatko Vedral compares this in a way with the famous Schrodinger's cat experiment, as long as there is not enough interaction to define a state, multiple possibilities coexist at the same time, the difference is that in this case the cat would also be you and that inevitably raises a strange question about identity, if there are countless versions of you emerging at every moment in different branches of reality, which of them is the real you? Maybe none. Or maybe they all are, because the more quantum physics evolves, the more it begins to raise uncomfortable questions about the very nature of reality.

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