Green Comet

What if someone offers you the possibility of escaping death?

This reading is (Tunnels)X by Gunnar de Winter, a biologist / philosopher who explores ideas through fiction. The quantum concepts are Schrodinger’s cat and tunneling. The promise is that they can use quantum tunneling to bring you back to the life side of the wall of death.

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You can get a blood test to see if you’re compatible. What do you do?

This reading is Two Lives Stretched Out Before Them by Janel Comeau, a writer, comedian, cartoonist and illustrator from Atlantic Canada. Its quantum concepts are the act of observation, computing, ethics, probability and superposition. They thought it was to see if their offspring would be viable.

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If someone is gone, can you talk to them in an alternate universe?

This reading is Clare’s Prism by Dave Chua, a successful author in Singapore. The quantum concepts are entanglement, light, the multiverse and the uncertainty principle. When she looks through her daughter’s prism, her dollhouse looks different.

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