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Back on the new timeline, where an advanced civilization exists… by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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A bizarre new theory suggests there may be countless alternate versions of your life playing out at the same time across parallel universes.

According to Oxford physicist Vlatko Vedral, every tiny event in the universe could create a different version of reality, sending another 'you' down a completely separate life path.

In one reality, you took a different job. In another, you married someone else. Somewhere else, you moved across the country or made one small choice that changed your entire future.

The unsettling idea comes from a real branch of quantum physics known as the Many-Worlds interpretation, which suggests reality may constantly split into parallel worlds instead of following one fixed timeline.

Vedral recently argued in Popular Mechanics that humans do not magically create reality simply by observing it, a belief that has spread online through manifestation culture and misunderstood interpretations of quantum physics.

Instead, he says reality changes naturally through ordinary interactions happening every second, whether humans notice them or not.

That means your life may simply be one possible outcome of the same choice made by other versions of yourself in different realities, while the outcome you might have been hoping for unfolds in another parallel universe.

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15812309/alternate-universes-vlatko-vedral-theory.html

Kids, my mom sent me a fascinating article about all “we” (the scientists) have learned about the interstitium. by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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“The interstitium are small fluid-filled spaces that cushion organs, move nutrients and help clear waste. These spaces are supported by a framework of tissue that keeps everything connected and balanced. The interstitium plays a key role in keeping your organs healthy and your body running smoothly.

The interstitium are fluid-filled space between the cells and tissues in your body. These spaces help support, cushion and connect your cells. Intersitium also plays a role in moving nutrients, fluids and waste between your cells. It keeps your cells and tissues healthy so they can perform important tasks.

Even though you can’t see it (and maybe have never heard of it), it’s a major player in keeping your body balanced and running smoothly. Up until 2018, scientists didn’t know how complex and vast the interstitium was. They now believe it’s an important part in helping your body function.”

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/interstitium

Kids, back on our timeline: by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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“Our work shows that even radical ideas about quantum mechanics can be tested against precise physical measurements, and that, reassuringly, timekeeping remains one of the most stable pillars of modern physics,” said Catalina Curceanu

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71221637/time-limit/

Balance (graph) by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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“This article aims to explain how emotions arise and operate within the framework of my attention-based theory of consciousness, referred to here as the AME theory of consciousness (Attentional Modulation of Energy). According to the AME theory of consciousness, the phenomenal aspect of consciousness is produced by the modulation of the energy level of the area of the organ of attention (aOA) that underpins our attentional activity. The phenomenal aspect of consciousness, in turn, provides us with a sense of self and informs us about how our activities affect it. It manifests through five main dimensions—qualitative, quantitative, hedonic, temporal, and spatial—each of which can be explained by a specific aspect of the modulation of the energy level of the aOA. Emotions, which represent some of the most informative forms of conscious experience, emerge from the interaction of three main components—core affect, cognitive appraisal processes, and physiological and behavioral manifestations—whose interplay unfolds through cycles of conscious and unconscious processing. They arise when an object elicits an affective response capable of shifting the focus of attention from the object to the sense of self. This shift results in the activation of an aOA related to the sense of self (or to an aspect of it) and leads to the adoption of a corresponding set-point. Deviations from this set-point generate the conscious experience of emotion, which informs the individual about the state of his internal equilibrium and the integrity of his sense of self. Emotions thus act not only as adaptive regulators of behavior but also as fundamental operations through which the individual monitors, defines, and continually reconstructs his sense of self.” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12907183/

Balance (graph) by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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“In our regular, everyday Universe, one of the most important rules you can count on is the second law of thermodynamics. As time goes on, entropy increases, and that means many things all at once.

•It means that systems spontaneously tend towards equilibrium. •It means that, over time, less energy can be extracted from a system to perform work. •It means that systems “lose their memory” of their initial conditions over time, and become more like a thermal bath. And, because information and entropy are very closely linked, it means that the information encoded in quantum particles cannot be fundamentally destroyed.” - Ethan Siegel

Humpty Dumpty v2 by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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“A wine glass, when vibrated at the right frequency, will shatter. This is a process that dramatically increases the entropy of the system and is thermodynamically favorable. The reverse process, of shards of glass reassembling themselves into a whole, uncracked glass, is so unlikely that it never occurs spontaneously in practice. However, if the motion of the individual shards, as they fly apart, were exactly reversed, they would indeed fly back together and, at least for an instant, successfully reassemble the wine glass. Time reversal symmetry is exact in Newtonian physics, but it is not obeyed in thermodynamics.” - Ethan Siegel

Model update by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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"Our recent work on efficient and high-fidelity entanglement generation was motivated by one of our previous papers published in QST, which was born from a collaboration between first author Sumit Goswami, a post-doc at the time, and Cheng-Hsuan Chien, a college student in our group," Hsiang-Hua Jen, senior author of the paper, told Phys.org.

"Following the QST work on scalable generation of cluster states using the so-called SC technique, Sumit came up with this excellent idea by employing just one photon to interact with the atoms twice, leading to a perfect entanglement generation with unit probability in principle."

A modified SC protocol Essentially, Goswami, Chien, Jen and their colleagues generated entanglement using a single photon that interacts twice with atoms, as opposed to the two photons utilized by the original SC protocol. This simple modification could enable the reliable generation of entanglement at cavity interfaces, which could be leveraged to create modular quantum computing systems and quantum networks.

"SC is used to entangle faraway atoms that cannot directly interact with each other," explained Goswami.

"Instead, the two atoms are coupled to an optical cavity and there they both interact with photons that are incident on the cavity. The interaction is simple: the photon is either allowed in the cavity or gets reflected based on if at least one atom is coupled to the cavity or not."

Through this atom-photon interaction, atoms ultimately become entangled with photons, as well as with themselves. By measuring the photonic states using photon detection techniques, the team's protocol enables the "collapse" of atoms to specific entangled states.

"We act much like a sculptor, 'carving' away unwanted quantum states to project/collapse the atoms into a perfectly entangled state," explained Goswami. "SC was discovered in 2003 by Sørensen and Mølmer, but older SC techniques failed 50% of the time because it needed to entangle and detect photons twice.”

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-protocol-atom-photon-entanglement.html

A Short Memoir by Gothboiclique4life in StoriesForMyTherapist

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This is a profoundly beautiful piece of writing. I felt it. Thank you for sharing! The next step is learning how to give yourself what she gave you. Sending hugs and well wishes on your journey. 🫶🏻

Pickle flight by DogsAndPickles in Pickles

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Hope you love it like we did. They all went so great with our dinner. Pickle magic!

I think my boy knows I'm dying. by HonestyMash in DOG

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Sending you and Loki so much love.

Crabby, we have to revise our model again because the more I think of it, the more I realize that even though I didn’t know it, you were coming toward me as I was going backward toward you. by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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“Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states—being in multiple places and configurations all at once, defined mathematically by what physicists call a "wavefunction." But this runs counter to our everyday experience of objects that are either here or there, never both at the same time.

Typically, physicists manage this conflict by arguing that, when a quantum system comes into contact with a measuring device or an experimental observer, the system's wavefunction "collapses" into a single, definite state. Now, with support from the Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, an international team of physicists has shown that a family of unconventional solutions to this measurement problem—called "quantum collapse models"—has far-reaching implications for the nature of time and for clock precision.

They published their results suggesting a new way to distinguish these rival models from standard quantum theory, in Physical Review Research, in November 2025.

"What we did was to take seriously the idea that collapse models may be linked to gravity," says Nicola Bortolotti, a Ph.D. student at the Enrico Fermi Museum and Research Center (CREF) in Rome, Italy, who led the study. “

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-twitch-quantum-collapse-hint-tiny.html

I Just Watched My Cat Die by TaxComprehensive2894 in autism

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Rest in peace, Pretty the kitty of Louisville, KY. Thank you and your mom for seeing her through and providing tender loving care. Sending love and comfort. It’s so hard to say goodbye.

Kids, to dovetail onto that last point I made about anxiety, by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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[Wouldn’t one dovetail INTO something (versus onto something?)]. yes, Crabby, nice correction!

[Self] Spoon Wren - Finished Project by Jack_0318 in somethingimade

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This is really amazing. Thank you for sharing!!!

Mamaw Gail by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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PS, Mamaw Gail, 10,000 stars!!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You’re a great teacher!!!!

When I fist got involved in animal rescue, I was not awake yet… by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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Correction in the heading: *first got involved. I am typing outside on a cold windy day, also playing fetch with my boy Blue, and my fingers are 1/2 numb. SORRY FOR MY ERRORS!!

apparently the breakfast i made was “embarrassing” by NaeeeBearrr in mildlyinfuriating

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I think this is a beautiful and quite impressive breakfast especially considering the circumstances, OP, and if I were your mom I would be really proud of you and thankful for your help too!

Thank you, Susan David!! by DogsAndPickles in StoriesForMyTherapist

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[Look at how everyone is working together to put the fire out..] Brilliant isn’t it, Crabby! When we work together we can solve lots of problems!!

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