Is Sarah Palin The Human Incarnation Of Schrodinger’s Cat? (Update)

Fux News anchor Chris Wallace laughs at Sarah Palin’s self parody

I should have seen this coming:

Last Friday Sarah Palin mistakenly stated that Paul Revere went to warn the British on his famous “midnight ride.” Yesterday Palin “doubled down” on her claim, saying that she was not mistaken when she was again asked about Revere on Fox News Sunday. Palin’s followers evidently also believe her side of the story, and have undertaken a large effort to change the Paul Revere Wikipedia page in order to make the her story “correct.” The Palin army had some success in changing the page, but still has not provided a legitimate source to show that Revere warned the British.

David Weigel at Slate explains:

This is a hell of a get by Charles Johnson. Starting on Sunday, as Sarah Palin kept explaining that her version of the Paul Revere “Midnight Ride” was historically accurate, Palin fans emerged on Wikipedia to “fix” the Revere biography. Palin’s taking heat for saying Revere “warned the British”? No problem: Just add the line in italics.

Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him (“The British are coming!”), largely because the mission depended on secrecy and the countryside was filled with British army patrols; also, most colonial residents at the time considered themselves British as they were all legally British subjects.

How long will it be before the Wiki moderators are forced to block the Palinistas from trying to rewrite history according to the world inside Sarah’s noggin?

But, hold on there– maybe she’s right! In a weird, Bizzaro world/universe kind of way, that is.

Could Sarah be the promised of avatar of quantum mechanics,  the human incarnation of Schrodinger’s Cat?  Will she be responsible for resolving a paradox that has baffled some of the greatest scientific minds of the last century?

Is Sarah the embodiment of QM’s Many Worlds Theory,  and by extension, the new Multiverse Theory proposed by Stanford University’s Leonard Susskind and UC Berkley’s Raphael Bousso?

Graphical representation of “the supersymmetric multiverse with vanishing cosmological constant”

MIT’s Technology Review sets the table:

The Multiverse Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,

The many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is the idea that all possible alternate histories of the universe actually exist. At every point in time, the universe splits into a multitude of existences in which every possible outcome of each quantum process actually happens….

This implies that there are an infinite number of universes, or at least a very large number of them.

That’s weird but it is a small price to pay, say quantum physicists, for the sanity the many worlds interpretation brings to the otherwise crazy notion of quantum mechanics. The reason many physicists love the many worlds idea is that it explains away all the strange paradoxes of quantum mechanics…

Let’s put the many world interpretation aside for a moment and look at another strange idea in modern physics. This is the idea that our universe was born along with a large, possibly infinite, number of other universes. So our cosmos is just one tiny corner of a much larger multiverse.

Today, Leonard Susskind at Stanford University in Palo Alto and Raphael Bousso at the University of California, Berkeley, put forward the idea that the multiverse and the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics are formally equivalent.

But there is a caveat. The equivalence only holds if both quantum mechanics and the multiverse take special forms…

Is Sarah one of those “special forms? ” Is it possible that her very existence embodies ” the otherwise crazy notion of quantum mechanics” and “explains away all the strange paradoxes of quantum mechanics”?  Is she “a small price to pay…for the sanity the many worlds interpretation brings to the otherwise crazy notion of quantum mechanics”?

Is it too early in the morning to be hallucinating this much?

We report, you decide.

UPDATE: Even Fux News gets sucked into the Many Worlds black hole vortex of the Palin Multiverse.

Here Fux does a segment on the Rethug presidential wannabes, and when it comes to covering their own employee, features a picture of Tina Fey instead.

To quote Robin Williams: Reality– what a concept!