Unstoppable Trolley<p>You are the conductor of a runaway trolley car barreling down the tracks. Ahead, there are two paths diverging in the woods.</p><p>If you pull the lever to the left, the trolley will continue on its current course, crashing into a group of 5 quantum physicists who are having a picnic in the woods. However, if you don't pull the lever, the trolley will veer to the right and crash into a group of 5 non-quantum physicists who are also having a picnic in the woods.</p><p>The quantum physicists believe in the many-worlds interpretation, so they think that in some parallel universe, the trolley will miss them. The non-quantum physicists believe in the single-world interpretation, so they think that in this universe, the trolley will definitely hit them.</p><p>What do you do? Pull the lever or not?</p><p>If you pull the lever, the trolley crashes into the quantum physicists, killing them. But in some parallel universe, the trolley misses them.</p><p>If you don't pull the lever, the trolley crashes into the non-quantum physicists, killing them. But in this universe, the trolley would have crashed into the quantum physicists if you had pulled the lever.</p><p><a href="https://gts.chapek9.com/tags/trolleyproblem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrolleyProblem</span></a> <a href="https://gts.chapek9.com/tags/schrodingerscat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SchrodingersCat</span></a> <a href="https://gts.chapek9.com/tags/quantumphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumPhysics</span></a></p>