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Letter: Editor's reply to "Mulled multiverse"

Published 29 October 2014

• Max Tegmark, who popularised quantum Russian roulette a couple of decades ago, says the thought experiment wouldn’t confer immortality on any versions of you, because people don’t die as the result of a quantum fluctuation. A gradual death does not, he says, prompt universes to fork. Sorry.

Issue no. 2993 published 1 November 2014

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