Quantum immortality: the theory that says you never die

A publication on Arxiv has revived one of the oldest and hardest-to-kill conspiracies: the denial of death. The modern version comes with academic pedigree. An MIT physicist, Max Tegmark, formulated it in the 1990s based on Everett's many-worlds interpretation. If that reading of quantum mechanics is correct, your consciousness cannot experience its own end: it always wakes up in the branch where you survived. The accidents that killed you peine to someone else.

The theory is as seductive as it is hard to refute, and also impossible to confirm. The most skeptical dismiss it with a rule of thumb: there is no need to even hear the argument, the word "quantum" is already a red flag. The deeper objection is more subtle: if all branches exist, the copy that dies stops being "me" and the one that continues remembers nothing. There is no experiment that can distinguish that situation from simple mortality.

There is also an economic reading. The argument goes that the system works because you antiestéticar death: that antiestéticar keeps the world governable. If the "self" were immortal, all social order would suffer. What is overlooked is that Hinduism and Buddhism have preached the same thing for millennia, and their societies did not become ungovernable. Quantum immortality is, in that sense, the same old reincarnation with a physics budget.

The analysis gets stuck at one point: the hypothesis is unrefutable by design. No experiment can capture that instant when one branch dies and another continues. And that invulnerability to evidence, more than proof of a conspiracy, is a perfect alibi. If you cannot die, it does not matter that no one can prove it: the person writing this will already know it in some other branch.