Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quantum suicide and quantum immortality in fiction


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 11:22, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Quantum suicide and quantum immortality in fiction

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Pure OR since 2007 - üser:Altenmann >t 04:58, 17 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete While Quantum suicide and immortality are thought experiments in the philosophy of quantum mechanics and arguably are a kind of specialized fiction, I could find no reliable sources discussing the topic in science fiction and its literature. The article itself is a well-formed list based article, but we still need an RS for the list itself. some sort of critical review, to discern which stories belong. --Mark viking (talk) 17:02, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:50, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:47, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:48, 23 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete because it is a list article and fails WP:Stand alone lists in that the criteria are not objectively stated and are not backed up by reliable source(s). Which is what I think Mark viking was saying, in different words. There may be articles out there that discuss this, maybe like a guest column in Analog, a long introduction to a SF anthology, or a summary article in Locus, but I didn't find any. There may be some gem in the book Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence which had a nice chapter on quantum physics and time travel (Ch. 26). but I didn't find anything directly on point. I was hopeful when I saw the title "Science Fiction: Quantum Crime Capers" from the Wall Street Journal, but it turned out to be a review of David Walton’s Superposition, a quantum immortality story not listed in the Wikipedia article. The section on "The Debate Over Thought Experiments" in "Thought Experiments" at The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy was very informative, but didn't get into science fiction. I even tried to find a publication from the "Schrödinger Sessions: Science for Science Fiction", from the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, to no avail.  --Bejnar (talk) 10:43, 25 December 2015 (UTC)


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