Schrödinger's Pickles

[Iban]

At work, one of the cashiers rung up an order with "Only Pickles, No Pickles."

It pissed the guy cooking the food off, and he decided to go with "No Pickles" considering that it was added to the order later on and was likely meant to replace the "Only Pickles."

But it made me think: there's another alternate universe that is exactly like ours, but the only thing that has changed is that the cook went with "Only Pickles" instead.

I was like, "woah."

[Ad Bot]

[Night Fox]

But then that would mean that there is an alternate universe for every separate possible outcome to anything that has ever happened.
That sounds cool.
Maybe if we can ever create a way to travel between existences, that could be our form of time travel?

[Stocking]

This logic only applies if the customer receiving pickles/no pickles was determined by a random interdimensional particle.

[Proog]

The real question is, which one will cause WWIII?

[Iban]

But then that would mean that there is an alternate universe for every separate possible outcome to anything that has ever happened.
That sounds cool.

It's a popular theory, actually.

Some of the folks at the Large Hadron Collider believe that atoms can disappear and travel into one of these alternate universes.

This logic only applies if the customer receiving pickles/no pickles was determined by a random interdimensional particle.

A small tweak in the chemical reaction in the cook's decision making process would have completely changed the outcome of the order.

[Stocking]

A small tweak in the chemical reaction in the cook's decision making process would have completely changed the outcome of the order.

But only if the chemicals in our head were sensitive to the acute radiation of theoretical particles, which they're not. 

[Tom]

That theory was invented just to rationalize killing cats.

[Alex Man!]

Pickles are cucumbers. Dipped in EVIL.