Hate to get off topic but why do you phrase perfectly standard sentences in the form of a question? Is that a cultural thing? I have no idea what Fillory is, other than inferring from context clues that it seems to be a location. That aside, the explanation does clear things up. Magic doesn't exist where I'm from, unless you're going to claim that "sufficiently advanced technology" counts, but that's idiotic. Still, I've seen enough of it around here to know that you're probably neither insane nor making this up as you go. But assuming this is all true, isn't it a good thing that someone was resetting the timeline?
Which brings me back to quantum suicide. It's based on the idea that every choice, every action, every event in which there are multiple outcomes, all of these create different branching realities. In one reality you drink tea, and in another you drink water instead. In one reality you die, and in another, you survive whatever was meant to kill you. Obviously you can no longer experience the timeline in which you died, so your awareness only continues in the world in which you lived. This, by technicality, makes you immortal after a fashion. No matter what kills you, you'll always end up in the timeline in which you do not die. If you were somehow aware of this, aware of all the branching realities, then you could take advantage of it, dying repeatedly without consequence. Hence quantum suicide.
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Is that a cultural thing?
I have no idea what Fillory is, other than inferring from context clues that it seems to be a location.
That aside, the explanation does clear things up.
Magic doesn't exist where I'm from, unless you're going to claim that "sufficiently advanced technology" counts, but that's idiotic. Still, I've seen enough of it around here to know that you're probably neither insane nor making this up as you go.
But assuming this is all true, isn't it a good thing that someone was resetting the timeline?
Which brings me back to quantum suicide.
It's based on the idea that every choice, every action, every event in which there are multiple outcomes, all of these create different branching realities.
In one reality you drink tea, and in another you drink water instead.
In one reality you die, and in another, you survive whatever was meant to kill you.
Obviously you can no longer experience the timeline in which you died, so your awareness only continues in the world in which you lived.
This, by technicality, makes you immortal after a fashion.
No matter what kills you, you'll always end up in the timeline in which you do not die.
If you were somehow aware of this, aware of all the branching realities, then you could take advantage of it, dying repeatedly without consequence.
Hence quantum suicide.