A quantum suicide/immortality thought experiment simulation using Python.
The quantum suicide thought experiment involves a similar apparatus to Schrödinger's cat – a box which kills the occupant in a given time frame with probability one-half due to quantum uncertainty.[note 1] The only difference is to have the experimenter recording observations be the one inside the box. The significance of this is that someone whose life or death depends on a qubit could possibly distinguish between interpretations of quantum mechanics. By definition, fixed observers cannot
At the start of the first iteration, under both interpretations, the probability of surviving the experiment is 50%, as given by the squared norm of the wave function. At the start of the second iteration, assuming a single-world interpretation of quantum mechanics (like the widely-held Copenhagen interpretation) is true, the wave function has already collapsed; thus, if the experimenter is already dead, there is a 0% chance of survival for any further iterations.
However, if the many-worlds interpretation is true, a superposition of the live experimenter necessarily exists (as also does the one who dies). Now, barring the possibility of life after death, after every iteration only one of the two experimenter superpositions – the live one – is capable of having any sort of conscious experience. Putting aside the philosophical problems associated with individual identity and its persistence, under the many-worlds interpretation, the experimenter, or at least a version of them, continues to exist through all of their superpositions where the outcome of the experiment is that they live. In other words, a version of the experimenter survives all iterations of the experiment. Since the superpositions where a version of the experimenter lives occur by quantum necessity (under the many-worlds interpretation), it follows that their survival, after any realizable number of iterations, is physically necessary; hence, the notion of quantum immortality" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
To my understanding, quantum suicide is an experiment to test that if the many-worlds or multiverse theory is true, given the infinite number of tries, you're maybe dead on one/this world but alive on the other (quantum immortality).
The program will generate a random number from 0 to 1. If the random number is less than or equal to 0.5 (simulating 50/50), the object is alive else the object is considered dead. The program whill show the number of tries, highest number of tries that the object is alive, and the chances of it happening.
The Python program was activated in a DigitalOcean VPS (1GB plan w/ some non-busy websites hosted) on July 29, 2021. As of 07/31/2021, the highest number of tries that the object is alive is 40 with a 0.00000000009% of chance happening!
Number of tries: 704,861,067,397
Highest counter: 40
Chances of this happening is: 0.00000000009094947017729282379150390625% - 2021-07-30 02:13:46.122378
As of 08/08/2021, the highest number of tries that the object is alive is 42 with a 0.00000000002% of chance happening!
Number of tries: 4,372,370,638,687
Highest counter: 42
Chances of this happening is: 0.0000000000227373675443232059478759765625% - 2021-08-08 22:59:29.229361
As of 09/02/2021 (my birthday), the highest number of tries that the object is alive is 48 with a 0.000000000000355% of chance happening! Looking forward to more than 50!
Number of tries: 9,227,125,479,797
Highest counter: 48
Chances of this happening is: 0.0000000000003552713678800500929355621337890625% - 2021-08-21 22:06:03.556991