# Schrodinger's Cat and World History: The Many Worlds Interpretation of Alternative Facts

## TL;DR

This paper humorously applies the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics to explain recent political events and the concept of alternative facts, suggesting that historical and social phenomena may result from quantum branching.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel, metaphorical perspective linking quantum physics to world history and media phenomena, blending scientific concepts with social commentary.

## Key findings

- Quantum tunneling could create new branches of history.
- Alternative facts may reflect ignorance of quantum state transitions.
- Historical events might be explained by multiverse branching.

## Abstract

I propose that much recent history can be explained by hypothesizing that sometime during the last quarter of 2016, the history of the world underwent a macroscopic quantum tunneling event, creating, according to the Many Worlds Interpretation, a new branch of the multiverse in which my consciousness and that of my readers is now trapped. The failure of much political polling is then understood by assuming that the particular branch we are on had very low amplitude in the quantum wave function of the multiverse. In this view, one must take a different attitude towards alternative facts than that proposed by the mainstream media. We know that quantum tunneling can change the low energy laws of physics in the different branches of the wave function. Alternative facts may simply be the reflection of the media's ignorance of the state of the world after a quantum transition of this magnitude.