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How to Swap Your Reality Without Knowing ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Steering Alternative Realities through Local Quantum Memory Operations"
· Xiongfeng Ma
arXiv:2512.14377 · 2025-12-16 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics
Quantum physics suggests a way to jump between different outcomes of the same event by erasing your memory.
Abstract

Quantum measurement resolves superposition by linking the outcome to the observer's memory—the reality register. The global state remains coherent, but local reality becomes unique. A reality control protocol is presented, allowing a probabilistic transition to another reality already encoded in the initial quantum state, without reversing the decoherence of the environment. To do this, the information about the choice of outcome is locally erased in the observer's memory; the environment is not touched. The transition requires the coherent participation of the observer's counterparts in the branches and is indistinguishable from the absence of a transition. After the reality switch, memory is perfectly consistent with it—there are no internal signs of the switch. Conscious confirmation is impossible in standard quantum mechanics. Nonlinear operations beyond the standard theory could provide verifiable and conscious navigation. The work moves the study of multirealities from philosophy into the quantum-informational plane.

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According to physicist Hugh Everett, every observation splits the universe into parallel branches. Normally, your memory of the outcome locks you into one branch, like a key keeping a door shut. A new protocol, reality steering, shows you can pick that lock: erase the memory, and the barrier fades, letting you slide into another reality.

Forgetting is physical. Your brain’s particles rearrange, releasing heat and increasing entropy—the universe’s drift toward disorder.

But the switch is perfectly invisible. Your new memories will seamlessly match the new branch, so you’d recall events differently and believe they always happened that way. You can never prove you jumped. Still, this turns idle speculation into a serious physics challenge.

🎯 Erasing a single bit of information at room temperature releases at least about 0.0175 electronvolts of heat—a tiny but real link between forgetting and the physical world.

🎬 Like the TV series 'Sliders,' where travelers hop between parallel Earths—but here, you’d never remember your original home.

Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinEmmy Noether
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entropy Standard Model black hole
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second law of thermodynamicsHawking radiationgravitational lensingNoether's theoremBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2512.14377 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds