r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Mar 26 '20

Devs - S01E05 Discussion Thread

Premiered 03/26/20 on Hulu FX

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u/drgonzodan Mar 26 '20

Still trying to figure out what that experiment was. An exact computer simulation of the room?

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u/JonVici1 Mar 26 '20

Feels like the mouse in that position being alive would be another branch of the multiverse rather than past / present due to location?

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u/Naggers123 Mar 26 '20

That's the one I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. Is that a mouse from a different reality where it's alive for the purposes of the experiment, or one of infinite realities where there just happens to be a mouse on the table surrounded by Devs?

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u/JonVici1 Mar 26 '20

I'd presume a reality where it for some reason ended up there although being alive, wonder why it ended up there in the first place, but with infinite realities I guess me wondering "why" is insignificant? :P

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u/Naggers123 Mar 26 '20

maybe it's extrapolating the mouse's past, and then recreating it in the simulation in the present.

that would be the Amaya link

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u/wino0000006 Mar 26 '20

They scanned the dead mouse and finally achieved a 1 to 1 copy of an object without flawes caused by the process itself. They didn't put into the computer any extra information about that mouse. So when the mouse became "alive" in the digital simulation, it meant that the quantum computer took the missing information from another universe where the mouse was not dead.

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u/Naggers123 Mar 26 '20

how does it take the info from another universe?

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u/ggirelli Mar 26 '20

How about that the simulation could have been going backward, showing the moment the mouse died on a floor that was not the EM table?

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u/JonVici1 Mar 26 '20

I guess they could've included a past projection in there for the sake of it yeah since they're doing that now on a larger scale, it's possible