{"id":199550,"date":"2024-11-15T19:26:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/are-alternate-timelines-real-quantum-physics-explains"},"modified":"2024-11-15T19:26:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T01:26:37","slug":"are-alternate-timelines-real-quantum-physics-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/are-alternate-timelines-real-quantum-physics-explains","title":{"rendered":"Are Alternate Timelines Real? Quantum Physics Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-alternate-timelines-real-quantum-physics-explains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The multiverse offers no escape from our reality\u2014which might be a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/george-musser\/\">George Musser<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As memes go, it wasn\u2019t particularly viral. But for a couple of hours on the morning of November 6, the term \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/the-darkest-timeline\">darkest timeline<\/a>\u201d trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually in it. All the probabilities expressed in opinion polls and prediction markets had collapsed into a single definite outcome, and history went from \u201cwhat might be\u201d to \u201cthat just happened.\u201d The two sides in this hyperpolarized U.S. presidential election had agreed on practically nothing\u2014save for their shared belief that its outcome would be a fateful choice between two diverging trajectories for our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multiverse offers no escape from our reality\u2014which might be a very good thing. By George Musser As memes go, it wasn\u2019t particularly viral. But for a couple of hours on the morning of November 6, the term \u201cdarkest timeline\u201d trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}