Green Comet

This one is about cats, and they’re not in boxes.

This reading is Possible Cats by Michael Haiden, a research associate in Technology Ethics. His philosophical writings focus on political theory, ethics and the history of ideas. The quantum concept in Possible Cats is the multiverse. If it was possible to reach into an alternate universe and replace your dead cat, would you? Would it be ethical? What if it was your dead little brother?

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This one is hard to write a brief precis of.

This reading is Lost Connection by Anjelica Grey, a science fiction and fantasy writer. Her husband and cats are surprisingly tolerant of how much she talks to herself. The quantum concepts in this story are entanglement, multiverse, reality and superposition. It’s a sad tale of loss. But is it worse because it’s not completely lost?

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What if the universe was only meant to have one observer?

This reading is The Observer by Dan Goodman, a long-time consumer of speculative fiction and quantum physics. He also enjoys hiking and skiing with his family. The quantum concepts are the act of observation, decoherence, light and reality. What would The Observer do to us if we started observing and collapsing his wave functions?

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