Forgotten Realms by Cassidy Raine Wolters

Author:Cassidy Raine Wolters [Wolters, Cassidy Raine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

Post Script - That Damn Cat!

Classical physics describes nature at the macroscopic scale. Quantum mechanics describes nature at the subatomic scale. These two approaches are completely incompatible. When we try to describe the microscopic realm using the math and vocabulary of the everyday world we get complete nonsense and gibberish.

To make this point clear, physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up with a thought experiment that has since become known as Schrödinger's cat. When you try to describe a quantum cat in classical terms you end up with a tabby that can be alive and dead at the same time!

Obviously, something is amiss in this scenario. What came out of the explanation of this paradox is referred to as the many-worlds interpretation. In this view, every event is a branch point. The feline is both alive and dead, but the living cat and the dead cat exist in different branches of the universe, both of which are equally real, but do not interact with each other.

This short story makes use of the many-worlds interpretation.

There are infinite realities spiraling out from every event. You, the reader, live in one of those possibilities. In a second possibility, Colossus morphed into a Big Brother-type entity that eventually dropped atomic bombs on the United States. Earlier in that reality, the United States developed time travel and sent two teams into the past. In a third possibility, Wade Soren merged with Colossus to become the Second Coming of Christ. In a fourth possibility, Russia emerged from World War II as the only superpower.

Every event is a branch point leading to infinite possibilities. Each of those endless possibilities becomes a launching pad for yet another set of endless possibilities.

Before we wrap things up, I feel the need to speak directly to my faithful readers. Some of you, no doubt, question whether or not this was a horror story.

Maybe yes. Maybe no. Perhaps the scariest part of the whole shebang is trying to wrap your brain around the can of worms that the concept of time travel opens.

I implore you not to overanalyze the story you just read. Did you not see the sign you passed earlier? It read "This way lies madness!"

Oh, you think I'm exaggerating, do you? Maybe you doubting Thomases should consider the following cautionary tale.

In the late 1800s, German mathematician Georg Cantor proved that there is an infinity of infinities. The sometimes maligned, sometimes paranoid genius died in an insane asylum in 1918.

Don't overthink it or you'll get sucked into the black hole!

By the way, some physicists believe that if you fall into a black hole in our universe, you'll emerge from a white hole in another universe.

Uh oh. There we go again, jumping from one possible reality to another. I should have stopped while I was ahead...

The End

29 - The Old Thompson Place

Every kid in Greenville knew to stay away from the Old Thompson Place on the hill that overlooked the graveyard at the edge of town. The house had been haunted for years, ever since Mr.

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