cold quantum comfort

sometimes the idea of other realities comforts me, realities where history has taken different turns than it has here and where things are different.

perhaps those other realities can't easily be reached from this one; but i still believe they're there, like unread books on a library shelf.

physics & math say that every quantum reality *can* exist -- if you can imagine it, there's probably a alternate quantum universe like it somewhere there in the multiverse.

and it's why i like fiction so much; it takes me most of the way to a variety of realities.