Coherence Page #5

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- If there's another me, I want to see me.

- No. No way.

- No, no.

- Let's go.

- Look.

- I'm over this.

I'm getting sick of

talking about it.

I'm getting sick of

writing about it.

- The same f***ing paper, the pictures...

- Wait.

There's nobody trying to hurt us.

We go find out what

the hell is going on.

What about you? You were

the one who wanted to go.

That's when I thought

they might have a phone.

Four glowsticks. Can we

please keep two guys here?

- Two guys staying here? Please?

- I'm staying, I'm staying.

Are you going? Amir, please.

Let's go.

So, what? We're splitting up again?

No. We're not splitting up.

We're just gonna go in two

different groups. Oh. Okay.

Sticks, sticks, sticks.

Do we need a towel on it?

I'm coming. Wait.

Chill for a second. I'm coming.

- Why?

- Because I want to go.

I'm going with Kevin.

- Give us 20 minutes.

- All right.

- And then what?

- Are we taking the bat?

No. We'll be fine. You will be fine.

It's gonna be all right.

We'll find out what's going on.

No cars. No people.

There's nothing.

Guys, look.

That's my house.

Mike. This is my house.

Mike, this isn't right.

Mike, this is not your house.

Mike.

- My house.

- This is not your house, Mike.

Mike. This is not your house.

What is he doing? Kevin.

I see... I see Lee. Guys.

We have to go. Let's

get out of here now.

Mike, we need to get

the hell out of here.

Someone's coming.

Someone's coming. Go. Just go.

That's just nuts.

So, you saw four

figures, same as you?

Except they had red glowsticks.

Who had red glowsticks?

They had the red glowsticks.

We had the blue glowsticks.

That was the only difference.

So, they must've opened the red

box when the lights went out.

- And you didn't say anything to them?

- Would you?

No, I wouldn't.

I think I would've thought I was

going to die, or something.

Okay, okay. So, that's it?

Well, that and there's

this weird zone...

that's even darker

than the rest of it all.

We went through that.

We went through that

when we went down there.

We need to find out

what's going on.

- The Internet's down. We don't have...

- We can't just sit here.

What else? Do you guys have any...

Do you have books?

Books on what? Books on comets?

Comets, gravity, black holes...

Yeah, I've got Shakespeare, some

Henry Miller and some screenplays.

Dude, I'm a f***ing actor.

Anything about quantum physics?

Yeah, that's right up my alley.

Some actors read.

Your brother left a book

at our house and...

What?

I put it in an envelope to mail,

but I-I put it in your car.

- And it's about?

- I don't know what it's about.

- Comets?

- It's just one of his books.

It's always about stuff like that.

Yeah, I will... I will go get

the book I don't know about.

Can somebody go with him?

Could you bring the bat?

- Yeah.

- Yes. That's a good idea.

Please be careful, babe.

Okay.

Should we wake up Lee?

How could she go to sleep

in the middle of all this?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, babe.

Jesus. Calm down, everybody.

Oh, baby.

I was gonna mail it back to him.

What is it?

"Gravitation:
An Introduction

To Current Research."

That's not gonna apply.

So, is his brother like a

scientist, or something?

He's just a really trippy guy.

He's really, really smart,

a real egghead.

But it's hard to... It's

like he thinks out loud.

He's a teacher at U.C.S.D.

What do you got, Hugh?

This is...

These are Brian's notes from

his lesson plan for his class.

"Decoherence and Schrdinger's

Cat." He talked about this.

Do you guys know what

Schrdinger's cat is?

I'm allergic.

So, it's a, um...

It's a thought experiment.

There's a...

There's a cat in a box...

that has, like, a 50/50

chance of living...

because there's a vial of poison...

that's also in the box.

So, regular physics would say

that it's one or the other.

That the cat is

either alive or dead.

But Brian would argue

that quantum physics says...

that both realities

exist simultaneously.

It's only when you open the

box that they collapse...

into a single event. Right?

So, listen to this.

This is what he's written.

"There is another theory:

That two states

continue to exist...

separate and decoherent

from each other,

each creating a new

branch of reality...

based on the two outcomes.

Quantum decoherence ensures

that the different outcomes...

have no interaction

with each other."

- Hold on.

- Well, that explains it.

So we're in the box.

We're the cat.

We're both alive and dead.

So, there are... There are two

separate realities, and...

presumably until the comet passes.

- Until the comet passes?

- Okay.

Or decoherence is maintained and

those two separate realities...

will remain separate

once the comet passes.

Everybody will be fine.

Decoherence keeps us separate.

Right.

Why are the other us contacting

us then in this way?

They didn't want to.

Who got the pictures?

Who... The numbers?

We started it when we went

to find a house with lights.

Yeah, maybe they didn't

mean the box for us.

The box isn't for us.

What if we've already

interacted with ourselves?

So, we're collapsing on

ourselves right now.

Not if we stay separate

from each other.

It's already too late.

We've already been there.

Do you remember that

movie Sliding Doors?

Where just a fraction of a second...

there could be two realities?

In one, she runs and tries to get

on the subway and she can't.

She gets her hand stuck in the door.

In the other one, she gets

through and there's two...

If we're collapsing right now,

I'm gonna collapse on them.

I'm not gonna wait for

them to collapse on us.

Whoa, whoa, Mike.

I'll go over there and

I'll just kill 'em.

- What?

- Half-kidding.

- Mike, let's just...

- I love my f***ing life.

Let's be smart first before

we do anything stupid,

and let's stick with

that we do know.

And what's smart? Just

sitting here? Doing nothing?

What we do know is that

we took this box. Right?

So, our first act should

be to return it. Yes?

F*** that. No. We're not

returning that box.

I don't trust that house.

That stays here.

Wait, wait, wait.

What's got you so freaked out?

- Stupid, stupid question.

- You're right.

We're not at war with the

house down the street.

They might literally be

the same people as us.

Mike's saying come over

here and let's kill us.

That's right. If you do it first,

you know who you're gonna fight?

- Mike.

- You.

You're gonna run into you.

Who's gonna win that?

Who did you see in the

window when you went there?

- Did you see yourself?

- I did not see myself.

- I told you who I saw.

- Okay, okay.

But what if, in that over there,

that house, what if I'm drinking?

I mean, just think

about that for a sec.

That's a f***ed-up Michael.

Oh, God.

I'm not gonna wait for a

f***ing drunk Mike...

to come over here and kill me.

And kill you and kill

you and kill you.

I'm not waiting for that.

Wait, wait, wait a minute.

Who did you see when you were there?

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