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“There’s a concept in real-life physics called false vacuum decay…Schild’s Ladder begins in the future, where they have solved physics. They’ve figured everything out; they know how it all works. People in this world routinely upload their brains to computers so they can run super-fast and observe weird processes happening at incredibly low timescales. Some people on a space station in this universe are doing a physics experiment, and it does not go the way they expect – which is weird because they’ve figured out physics – and it triggers false vacuum decay. Since their consciousness is running really, really fast, they’re like, ‘Oh, man, we really screwed up.’ That’s a compelling scene, because they know they’re about to be consumed, and they have nanoseconds to decide what to do about it.” Read more...
