Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

The thought experiment of Quantum Suicide theoretically proves Hugh Everett III's Many-Worlds explanation of quantum mechanics Which of these physics geniuses came up with the Quantum Suicide experiment?

  1. Neils Bohr

  2. Max Planck

  3. Max Tegmark

  4. Archimedes

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Max Tegmark proposed the Quantum Suicide thought experiment in 1997 as a way to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation and the Many-Worlds interpretation. In this experiment, a quantum-triggered device would kill a person if it measures quantum decay, but according to Many-Worlds, the person would always survive in some branch of reality. Bohr and Planck developed quantum mechanics but died before Everett's Many-Worlds theory, and Archimedes lived 2,000 years earlier.