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Constellation and Dark Matter: the TV series that could change your view of quantum mechanics

15 Jul 2024 Robert P Crease

Two new science-fiction TV series – Constellation and Dark Matter – reveal the problem of using the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics as a fictional device, say Robert P Crease and Jennifer Carter

Still image from TV show Dark Matter
The road not taken Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly star in Dark Matter, in which a physicist abducts himself from an alternate universe and swaps lives. (Courtesy: Apple TV+)
“My understanding of identity has been shattered,” mulls the protagonist in Blake Crouch’s boo

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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