Quantum Hokem

* See also Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything
* See also Quantum_TimeTravel
* See also Real_Physics
* See also The_Quantum_Revolution - real world with this stuff
* See also Multiverse_Be_Dumb ( bein in Derpistan )
* See also Floatyshit(tm)
* See also Ghosts_In_Columbia
* See also Explaining_Too_Much When a Story is too Fake/Hokem
* See also M-World_Hypothesis ( the alleged basis for all this hokem )
* See also A_Game_Shouldnt_Require_Interviews_To_Explain_Itself
* See also How_To_Do_Quantumz
* See also Faux-Whatever all of the BS on Infinite
* See also Science
* See also Constants_and_Variables_%3F ...
== Did it ever feel like Levine & Co were throwing 'Fake Science' at you like 'monkeys throwing feces at the zoo' ? ==
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 For those who are High Physics ignorant : That isn't just a pretty bloodspray in the pix, but is a pattern of the type which a Bubble Chamber shows - the traces left by the High-energy Collision of subatomic particles. It is a jab at the game writer's attempt to tie gunplay to sci-fi in their sloppy/careless Infinite BS manner.
You could write entire books about the 'ins and outs' of quantumz and Time Travel in interdimensionz, and with what systems it might work under certain Fantasy assumptions, and how all the various issues might possibly be systematically (consistently) resolved ( and about what can be done and what just cannot, and what problems might occur ).
Of course the KISS Principle KISS = KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID could then hardly apply, as you have to 'spin out' quite a web of special cases and exceptions to do that with Infinite BS's given cosmological system.
Infinite BS took the 'Cuz' path of : "We Make It Whatever We Want, and Don't Have To Explain Why What We Show Is NOT Even Consistent With Itself". Thats very easy for when you (Players) have heard a few 'quantumz' buzzwords that sound like something the gamemaker uses to sup[posedly enable various types of events/happenings in a Game. Also, it is very easy/convenient when Players read or are later told : "It DOES NOT' mean that" or "It doesn't work that way", and thus logic can be ignored "Cuz it is only a game". There are SO many Fanboi Apologists for Bad Fantasy out there who the gamemakers do Pander to. 
The game writers intent was only to SOUND like the game setting is connected to something of real science, mostly being done to 'Fool the Rubes' into buying the 'neat' sounding game.
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Even better misrepresentation was : Having promotional Vids showing off "What the game will be like", and then abandoning most of that because it turned out to be actually too difficult to get to work on the Players game machines. Many more special Tear scenes were to originally exist in the game where YOU could invoke *Choice* of Elizabeth and causing something to shift the current combat situation and perhaps shape the story. The Idea all finally degenerated Degenerated form having Custom Scenes - The result of too many effort-taking custom scenes having to be interactively scripted for into those Pathetic 'Canned' arena battle Tear setpiece things ( ie- Samurai - WTF ??? ). A weak replacement for the original 'Trailer' shown/implied "Choice" idea. 
 - The Player, Observing (Decoherence-ing) The Game Caused It To Collapse From Its Superposition (Uncertain) Pre-Bought Probability State, Into Its MONO Non-Quantum State - That of : Mediocre Insufficiency. 
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Who The Hell knows how that Faux Quantumz Stuff worked ?
Just understand that : Below "1", Bad things start to happen in Columbia.
Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything ...
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Infinite BS - 'Lost In Space' Style "Science" :
At least the writers of that old 1960s TV show have the excuse that they had to quickly come up with another 'plot' every week for several years ( and were budget limited for props/effects ).
There also were alot fewer hard core science documentaries available on TV and No Internet, so they could spew buzzwords and sound smart while the latest monster of the week rampaged in the episode. B-Movie plots were accepted as the norm.
Infinite BS makes up alot of its 'the way things work with Quantumz', but then aren't even consistent in the WAY those things work. So it is all really based on the 'Cuz' particle, where anything the writers want is possible, no matter what real-science/logic/reason/common-sense says.
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 "Flying Faux Fantasy(tm)" :
A perfectly fine "alliteration" (( The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. ))
Floating ... Floating ... https://www.thoughtco.com/quantum-levitation-and-how-does-it-work-2699356 - Note that in this article they mention 'track' the Floaty thing must be above - magnets UNDER which Columbia is completely lacking
It might as well have been Farging Fantasy Floatyness, and based on "Kirlian Photography" technology from "Spaztron waves emanating from that C.E.R.N. thingee". ( THAT sounds like something good and plausible to your average Player, don't it ? ) Makes about as much sense as all the Quantumz BS they made up for Infinite BS. ( Heck, they even had that TV show Quantum Leap to consider !!! )
Hmm. This Quantum 'Entangled' thing they say about the game in the interviews : Sounds like something that you might 'TIE' the city into to make it hang up in the sky, no ? Except real Quantumz Floatery has little to do with that kind of Physics'Real' Quantum Floatery has to do with the way certain materials acting as SuperConductors will resist magnetic force lines and thus create force vectors lifting the object..
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There Will Always Be a Lighthouse, a Man, and a City ??? :
Sorry, no 'Constants' AT ALL in any logical Quantum Universe ( But heck, they could say anything they wanted at Players who mostly just want to get on with Slaughtering things ... )
"There will always be a Windmill, a Dog, and a Patch of Grass" ( said by one of the other demented Dimension-burnt Elizabeths ).
"There will ALWAYS be a Shemp, a BloatefuqBloatefuq - Isn't that a Bond Villain ????, and the Bear" -- This being something Booker mumbled to himself in one of his drug-induced "Fever Dreams" ... Historians are still trying to decipher what this means ( OR 'They never have' applying 'Schrodinger cat-box' thought experiment ).
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The Real World Quantum Theory Bust :
Seriously here we are 100+ years later ( than the game's events of 1893-1912 ), and we STILL have little practical use to show for the parts which actually ARE Quantum Science 'Theory' ( 'M-World' is more a "hypothesis", since you actually have to test and have proof for what is labelled 'Theory' ). Quantum Physics is also a broad set of Hypothesis -- WHICH is Mostly dealing with what goes on deep within/between atomic particles, rather than some weird mental gymnastic 'explanations' created to try to explain a few things noticed in Physics.
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Someone in Rapture was investigating "String" Theory. And they Thought it was a good idea to Splice cats to ask them about it. It turned out THAT wasn't a good idea - instead was a VERY VERY bad one.
Joke : "How Does a Lutece quantify a Quantum Particle ?" Answer "Cut them in two and count the legs !!!!"
( Note - You see this joke makes as much sense as the 'quantum' anything used in Infinite BS. )
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Quantum Anything CANNOT Remain "Constant" : 
WERE THEY MORONS OR JUST LAZY HACKS (( the 'writers' of Infinite BS )) ??? Did the company grunts just do what they were told ? But the designers 'claim' they consulted with 'experts' about Quantum Physics (( More BS ?? Or just Buzzwords ??? )) . 
INCONSTANT AND A PROBABILITY SPACE is the WHOLE POINT of Quantum Physics -- the constant flux and indeterminate state ( How the hell they got those ideas they spoke endlessly about is a mystery ). Ignoring Real Science and just deciding to warp it, because " The Plot Called For It". The interviews showed they were willing to BS their way through everything simply to SOUND like something "Sciencey" -- Sorry, that is NOT really that clever - any bad writer can do that ).
BTW, REAL 'Quantum' effect manipulations in OUR World take place at temperatures just above Absolute Zero - THAT'S MINUS 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit for those who never took much Science in school ( ... really really cold, and requiring complex/massive equipment Even TODAY to provide ).
For all the things they (the Infinite BS gamewriterz) claimed for Quantum Particles, it really is about as relevant to Real Physics as if they had wrote about "Magic Beans". They never should have used something from Real World terminology ( all those related buzzwords and what THEY thought they sounded like ) to pad their Ensuing Poor Fantasy. The 'Theories', which they claim it is all about, don't even relate to the various Hypothesis of REAL Quantum Physics.
They do sound like fools in those interviews, going on and on about this stuff building their strange 'House Of Cards', and patting themselves on the back for being so clever about 'making this work' in their game story -- ALL When their misuse/abuse of Science was alot of bad fantasy gibberish.
 "Certain Details Need To Be Avoided When Real Facts Used Wrongly Could Be Noticed, Bringing The Writer's Competency Into Question" - Anton Chekhov
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Chicken or The Egg ? ( When You Don't Have Either ? ) :
A Problem with Lutece's Quantumz is all the required associates technologies ALSO do not exist ( and she/he could hardly theorize/design/create/develop/make-workable the HUNDREDS/THOUSANDS of advanced things required ) to manipulate anything Quantumz. THEY would all have to be invented and perfected first. And THEN, only AFTER she built those things that led upto making "Tears", could she maybe steal/obtain such things as a shortcut.
The only logical conclusion is her being given most of all of that ability to initiate such 'particle' capabilities, and this would have to be attributed to external/alien intervention ( as in Tears from some other universe handing her most of 'her' accomplishments ). In other words, Rosalind Lutece probably was as big a fake and charlatan as Comstock was ( as in taking credit for so much she never 'did' ... kinda like Ken Levine, no ? ).
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A Complete Misunderstanding - 'Real' Quantum Mechanics Effects ONLY Work in the MICRO Scale, NOT MACRO.
Femto-Seconds 'Femto-Second' is one quadrillionth of a second ( a factor of 10−15 1/1,000,000,000,000,000th of a second ) - Distances So Tiny that Atoms are like solar systems. There are such TINY spans of time for their interactions as well.
Applying REAL Quantum Mechanics also requires cryogenic temperatures to be in effect - Usually being within a few degrees of absolute zero ( -459.67 F/ -273.15 C ). Maybe if Columbia was on Pluto ???
Real Science kinda gets in the way of the writers, don't it ? So you just ignore it, but then pretend there is 'social relevancy' in the same game at the same time ( reality pretty much ignored there too ... ). Kinda like faking 'Moral Choices'. ALL simply alot of talk, and meager showings.
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Quantum Particle - The Slippery Slope (Infinite 'Went Over The Cliff') :
Columbia somehow uses these things to 'float'.  ( LET'S ignore the misapplication of magnetic quantum tunneling effects of superconductors ... THAT'S where they got the 'Floaty' idea from. )  A 'Particle' is a teeny tiny point - how/what can you fasten to it ? ( some kind of 'force field' now is needed ? )   Even if you have THOUSANDS of such particle thingees in every block of Floaty Columbia ( some kind of Floaty cement additive ? Floaty paint ? ), the basic problem remains.  The entire weight of Columbia is held up - bricks and dirt and people -- All requiring super-strong materials that don't even exist today.
You can't directly fasten these 'particles' to anything - every known material (today) is too weak strength-wise to transmit the forces involved ( assuming you can fasten anything real to a 'quantum' particle that is sorta there and not-there at the same time. )   The Surface Area of a particle is very small ( Or did they not tell us these particles are each the size of a "VW Bug" ?   Were they the Blue Glowey lamp things we saw around Columbia ? Or are those some OTHER magic things ? )
Maybe if there were billions and billions of these small particles, and they are self-contained/powered/controlled, and somehow embedded one in every cubic millimeter of Columbia ...  Then we effectively have Anti-Gravity material, and people should be flying around in anti-gravity belts/suits using similar materials -- Who needs the stupid Skylines when we have 'Flying Gear' ... NO ?   Didn't see any.  Game coulda been ALOT better with that, No ?   
Otherwise, technically (real physics), you now need some 'fancy-arsed' POWERFUL magnetic field or gravity or somesuch to hold onto these little 'particles'.  How big is THIS required MACHINERY now ??   BIGGGG or teeny ?   Either way, they are BIGGER than 'particles', and even have alot of weight that just adds to the whole "floaty" problem.
You now have to POWER whatever this magnetic/gravity machinery something is -- It adds up to ALOT (in whatever aggregate) of Power - as it is holding onto something (transmitting force) that is holding up a large heavy structure (weight of a city) against gravity. ( It is "fixed in a point in space" ... Then how does Columbia move ??? Sorry, NO. BTW - THAT'S NOT PART OF QM EITHER ... )   LOTS of Power that needs to be generated somewhere, and transmitted to the 'hold-on-to-particle' machinery.   Big wires, high voltage, transformers, generators, nuclear reactors, etc, etc, etc ( Heh, those weigh a ton just by themselves and do take up lots of space ).   Super high energy density power stuff ??  Yet another wondrous development we have barely touched a century later, and another of a thousand things the Luteces would impossibly have to figure out ?
Anyway, So that's BIG machinery, unless there is some new teeny tiny power generating method now too ? ( add it to the list ... ) AND How does THAT now work ?  And what fuel does this power generation require, and how does it get to Columbia ( and gets distributed from wherever the power is generated ) ?  Tap into Zero Point Energy ? Sorry, no. Solar Power ??? ... Hmmm and what about at night ? Big (HUGE CAPACITY) Batteries for THAT solution ( So who then invented THAT technology with huge energy capacity to run overnight for the massive Floaty forces ?   Remember, they barely had crude electric motors working when Columbia was supposed to be built -- AND ALL OF THIS (FLOAT BIT) WOULD HAVE TO EXIST/WORK by 1893 ... SEE HOW THESE EXPLANATION NEED TO WORK ?? Rapture == Geothermal Power ... SO SIMPLE )
Now that you have ALL of THOSE kinds of technologies solved ( we'll assume for the sake of demonstration ), you could also now make stuff like 'Hand Phasers' and 'Spaceships' ( and fancy melty furnaces and Nano-Whatzits ), and NOW don't need all the antiquated junk we saw in Columbia.  Everything is solved.   Easy-peasy to make even crude Buck Rogers weaponry using all that fancy stuff that ALREADY should have been solved, No ?
ANYWAY - SO the Luteces somehow solved all of these issues employing complex previously unknown concepts ( to not just think of, but to BUILD workable things ), used non-existent materials ( and the as yet undiscovered sources for them and processes to make them ), and complex undreamed-of tool/processes ( to manufacture everything mentioned ), AND dozens of technological disciplines their brains could never encompass ( and which would take hundreds/thousands of exceptional smart people's lifetimes to develop for real ).
Yeahhhhhhh,  Riiiiight......  Unicorn Tears would be simpler, and more logical, and even MORE likely.
They are trying to Sell you this 'Quantumz' Hokem, Pig in A Poke, so 'You need to Read the Fine Print' ...
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Columbia Was Powered By Unicorn Tears And Pixie Poop :
Much easier to just say Magic and not look stupid with trying to use fake-science BS.   The Infinite BS religion/history stuff was already mostly Fantasyland, so skip the ridiculous attempts at technical explanations, and just deal with the human drama.  Then you could have worked on having many more (interesting) kinds of guns, and more interesting 'Gear'/gadgets, and Plasmid-like effects, ( instead of them all being unimaginatively so-much-the-same recyclings from the previous BioShock games ).  The attempts to 'fit in' all an overload of "social issues" resulted in a laughably pathetic caricature anyway.
You've already got spirits (with magic footprints yet), god powers and other such fantasy stuff, so why at the same time attempt to justify it all via pseudo-science technology or anything pretended to be 'Real World' ??   
Attempted comparisons to anything Culturally/Socially/Historically Real or 'Relevant' simply fall down when you include so many fantasy elements.  You are overloaded with pseudo-science details, as well as outright magicals -- and even within those there are inconsistencies/absurdities/contradictions.
Whining about evil America doesn't quite work when you are in Fantasyland with Drunk Gandalf and Spongebob Hitler.
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That "Creating His Own Memories" Aspect (While Shifting Dimensions) :
Some Wackojacko kindof idea the game writers came up with : Some Fantasy effect allegedly caused by MELDING/MERGING of two universe dimensions ( Sorry, "NOT part of Quantum Physics there, boyo" ). It is MORE of their quantumz-fakery based on a 'Quantum Collapse' buzzword they'd heard. PROBLEM : IF these realities/dimensions/whatever 'Collapse' together, THEN shouldn't there be a huge jarring occurring ( If you notice, the two universes they cross between are sometimes SIGNIFICANTLY different -- OR WHY ELSE would they NEED to jump through the Tear in the game 'in the first place' - So to use it as a Plot Continuance device ????? ) These game Quantumz Rules are NOT particularly systematic, in the way the writers apply them to their plot/story/setting, no ?
Apparently BOOKER'S MEMORIES ARE CHANGED. What memories are these ? - How do WE see these 'new memories' - AND WHAT are his 'old' memories ? And WHAT are they supposed to be different from ?? SAYING it is happening in the Game is easy, while DEMONSTRATING it is another thing. (( Modified Flashbacks shifting each time you do one of these Tear 'memory' shifts MIGHT have been a good game element here. ))
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Do memories form your personality ? Some people go a completely different directions with the same memories ( it be a 'Quantum thang' there ). Anyway, it probably won't help their lame game logic to mention here : That PEOPLE are NOT Quantum Objects !!! ( Neither was much else in Infinite BS - in Real Science it applies to teeny-tiny particles only ). Roll the die for what the two or more Bookers' memories finally MERGE to be ( There's wholesale indeterminacy for REAL quantums you know ... The writers apparently did not ).
Oops, "Merging" with DEAD Booker ( in one of the game's Tear transitions ) ??? That shouldn't be good. A BIG conflicting Transition "Merge", No ? But, it magically wasn't that big a deal to Booker, for some reason. Google the word 'Contrived". (( Brain hemorrhaging Insane/Cretin-ified Booker should have resulted, shouldn't it ? Does Elizabeth's MAGIC prevent it ? Yes, those are very 'scientific' rules of the universe this game has. ))
Consider that Comstock creates his 'past' ( museum history, persona, propaganda ) but those aren't really "his memories", and we can't really know what HIS memories (old or new) are EITHER ( no internal narrative inside his mind for you to see/hear in the game ... ) And Comstock also is "collapsing" as these Tear MERGES happen too ??? What a farging fecking mess there, boyo.
Booker is a mystery to us -- No 'thought bubbles', just his outside actions/words, which might really be disingenuously smarmy/two-faced 'to get what he wants' (Like Atlas) -- That is, when Booker is not busy murdering other humans "At the Drop of a Hat". (( Hearing many/lots of his 'thoughts to himself' might have been VERY INTERESTING -- REMEMBER THAT FOR THE REDO ))
Maybe Elizabeth is also affected by this "Creating Memories" thing too ?? Isn't SHE ALSO merging with the Elizabeth already in whatever alternate reality they move into through a Tear ??? ( I don't recall THAT ever being mentioned - But the Magic Princess won't/can't be allowed to have her brains scrambled - DE PLOT WON'T NOT ALLOW DAT. *OR* even hint that it is possibly happening to change the Player ).
So applying the above issues/effects, your experiences as Booker can ALL potentially be fake/delusional ( much like 'Jack' the super-Splicer ). What you do (and who you are) in the game can be (and was) something else -- including that final scene - a delusion that everything is fine (( OOPS except if Booker was drowned, then HOW then is there a baby Annabell ?? -- So NOT real ??? -- CAN'T BE ...))
Perhaps it is all in Elizabeth's head, as SHE is being kept in a padded cell in a Sanitarium back in the non-quantumized normal world in Kansas ( as the attendants approach to prepare her for that new Trans-Orbital Lobotomy procedure !!! Ooh, that will be fun with more interesting results. Necessary because all the electro-Shock therapy hadn't worked ... )
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BTW : SO 'Wiped from existence' is the only 'Peace' ??? BaS proved that a lie/delusion didn't it ?? (Well, so did that ending of Infinite BS itself contradict 'god' Elizabeth's alleged understanding/all-knowingness ).
( Alot of Players might wish they had never played this BS, and had their money back in their pocket too - Oh what a fantasy -- TOO LATE PILGRIM !! RockStar Games probably VERY MUCH wished THEY had THEIR money back too. ).
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The MMORPG parallel REDO of Infinite BS might have a 'die roll' that results in a different Booker each play-thru - a sampling taste of all that Infinite spectrum of personality and motivation (and creepiness) for YOU to have fun experiencing. ( "Infinite Unleashed" --- Hey, that's a good title. )
Examples :
* Stanley Poole Booker - Just tries to stuff Elizabeth in a sack and make his getaway to have his 'debts' cleared ...
* Pee-Wee Herman Comstock somehow gets thwarted ( and does that creepy laugh )
* Autistic Elizabeth is in her 'own little world' the whole time.
* The Giant Pigeon just poops on people
* A Psychotic Killer Booker ( moreso ) who will try to kill Elizabeth at random times.
* Boygirl Of Silence Elizabeth - "Misbehave, Wear The Stupid Hat"
Different actions/reactions means ALOT of scripting here, but you can tap into the Splicer scripts for alot of the logic ( Power of Templates ). Voice Assets will face the same problems as the main MMORPG - far greater numbers of them, and more for Player Created additions.
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And YOU Thought Plasmids/Vita-Chambers Were Hard to Justify ... :
"Quantum Particles suspended in Space Time at a 'fixed height' " .... Uh right.  Aristarchus's, Copernicus  and Galileo, Einstein and others are rolling over in their graves at these writers' abuse of Physics.  The earth rotates (and wobbles) and orbits the Sun in an elliptical path, which then orbits the center of the Milky Way, which is moving outwards in the expanding Universe.  THAT'S a Sum of more than 600 km/sec ( most bullets travel well under 1 km/sec ) in several different changing vectors.   These MAGICAL 'quantum particles' seem to be pretty smart.  The least little error/variance in the millionths degree would crumple Columbia like so much tin foil.
Do you ever get the feeling they should have just said the place runs on 'Fairy Dust' ??? ( Or smarter - JUST NOT TRIED TO EXPLAIN AT ALL ???? )
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Schrodingers Cat ABUSED !!!! :
Its funny, but the internet articles on 'Quantum Entanglement' only say that certain researchers CLAIM to have seen this effect, when so many publicly touted accounts seem to imply that it is a "fact".   Anyway, this was all just gobbledeegook in BS1 to try to justify the Vita-Chambers, which are just part of a game SAVE Mechanism,  whereby the Player doesn't have to constantly remember to 'Save their Game'.
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The Copenhagen Interpretation :
First - a 'Cat' is not an object with wave–particle duality (concept or otherwise). Quantum objects have to be utterly simple ( so similarly a HUMAN cannot be a quantum object subject to 'entanglement' ).
The random mechanisms that sets off the Poison Capsule (in the allegorical box) is actually the 'quantum thingee', and the Cat is just something that makes plain the apparent state(outcome) 'when you open the Box' (the Observation).  The theory goes : That at the time of Observation the Quantum Effect will be in one of its Possible states ( while the Quantum Effect is in progress the objects existence is a probability of states, and in constant flux ).   When observed, the quantum object settles into one of its possible states - it is 'Entangled' - upto that time it has the potential of being one of it's probabilital states.
Unfortunately ( as misapplied in this game story writing ) people are NOT Quantum objects either, as they are  constantly/completely 'Entangled' in their environment.  The Cat symbolic 'object' being in a Box is supposed to illustrate the (isolated) lack of Entanglement ( of not being observed ), which then suddenly ceases when the observer opens the Box ( when the object IS "observed" at a moment in time ). 
It is incredible ( or not with today's mass media pushing pseudo-science ) how this Quantum Theory stuff gets misused to be whatever this bunch of game writers needs.  Most game writers likewise probably don't know how their car engine (or computer) works inside, even though THOSE things CAN be explained using common enough knowledge.
Infinite's Abuse of Science - Quantum Theory in particular ( and its exploitation of ignorant Players ) :
* Time Travel
* Floaty levitating Super-Conductor 'points' WITHOUT the required supporting huge powerful magnets beneath them
* "Tears" interfacing between alleged multiple 'dimensions' ( with bleeding ears 'merging' effect BS )
* Prescient 'god' humans, who somehow can manipulate it all      
Sorry, NONE of that matches the various REAL theories/hypothesis/observed effects ( which DO often make sense/have consistency within the constraints of the universe and working Science ).  Fantasy is fine -- UNTIL its game employment starts endlessly bullshitting/misusing/misrepresenting existing Science which IS an actually real scientific discipline -- It is why 'Warp Drive' in Star Trek was wisely NEVER really explained in detail.  Levine & Co made the mistake of endlessly hyping ( and patting themselves on the back for ) alot of Faux-Science stuff which is plain illogical and inconsistent with itself. 
Allegations that they 'consulted' with 'scientists' about 'quantum physics' apparently lead to dubious results and merely obtaining buzzwords to abuse.
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Quantum (Entanglement), Etc ... :
The original "Quantum Entanglement" for Vita-Chambers -- It is minor as it was a lame adjunct to explain how a game Auto-Save mechanism worked.  I can come up with some plausible reasoning showing that explanation could easily be intended as potentially just Marketing Hype.  Strangely it has no operational consumer-use of THAT 'Resurrect' feature, which was allowed only to Ryan ( never demonstrated or advertised as you might expect ), and it is clearly DEVELOPER FABRICATED for the Player ( who is now potentially a crazed Splice, who sees ghosts ) to make use of it (AutoGameSave). 
( Hmmm - all those respawning Splicers - them using it might have been justified in the Game, well they obviously didn't think of alot of things... )
They (those game developers) then went on to built(warped) a whole fantasy game around even worse 'Quantum' pseudo-science in Infinite BS.   Regurgitated that fantasy stuff again when the Infinite BS DLC tainted BS1/BS2 Rapture with the same ridiculous pseudo-science multiverse/time-travel/god-making 'magic'.
Next BioShock : The Hello Kitty-Harry Potter-esque Purple Unicorn Continuum - It'll be all about Real Historic American Social Issues again too.   This one also will include revisits to a 'Prime' Rapture.
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Infinite Infinity Overwhelms :
Consider : "IF Free Will Does Not Exist" ( cuz every decision is just a flip of a quantum in your brain ), THEN there is no "Evil" or "Good". AND Elizabeth ( the supposedly 'ALL SEEING' DIMENSIONAL GOD ) Should Know This -- Yet she is still shown bent on a path of pointless Revenge ( including into our newly BS-afflicted BaSx Rapture ... )
I may note (again) that with these alleged *INFINITE* (multi) universes, she will be VERY busy (as in FOREVER) trying to STOP all the Booker-Comstocks ( many of whom have nothing to do with her - there's a boy named Fred Locked in the tower in one universe and a large ball of string in another ... ). With the given game interpretation of this 'Quantumz' stuff, her solution of flipping between dimensions "to get out of a problem" leaves the miscreants in the dimension she leaves still on their original paths/fate/evil/good and those Comstocks left "un-fixed" (FAIL !!).
Through another part of that game-used Multiverse Hypothesis ( Multi-world interpretation ), she is THEN just SPLITTING OFF ADDITIONAL UNIVERSES AND THUS *CAUSING* YET MORE EVIL UNIVERSES to come into existence WITHOUT changing the original one's she leaves. Infinite new universes split/branch into being. The more she meddles the more their are. SO she goes back and drowns Booker ? There are ALREADY an Infinite number more of exactly the same Universes existing right at that point and those she hasn't "fixed". Even if she spent every moment ( "til the end of time" or "til the end of her days" or just til she just gets bored with it ) flitting about using her magic god powers to kill ANOTHER Booker, 'INFINITE" is so large that she effectively gets to virtually none of them.
Thus Elizabeth is shown NOT to be all Powerful/Knowing/Wise, and is just some deluded fool who futilely thinks she can change things. ( The books she allegedly read should have explained all this, maybe ... OR like other delusional people, she doesn't care *OR* is so mental that she can't see the truth. )
(( Don't hate me for poking numerous holes which a zeppelin could fly through in most of these Infinite game writer's attempts at logic, and blowing away their problematic tale ( They were the ones who made believe it is 'science' rather too loudly and continually ). It is all pretty much some bullshit they made up, and they pretend that their story makes sense. It is FAR too easily demonstrated that it doesn't. ))
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The Real Multiverse 'Theory' Kinda Kills That Infinite BS Plot :
The "Many Worlds Interpretation" says : To allow the quantum objects behavior without paradox, every time there is a quantum interaction/formation, the current universe splits into many universes each one containing a different version representing each of that quantum object's (infinite) possible quantum states . When that quantum object interacts again (like being "observed"), it will appear to resolve into one of its possible non-probabilistic states. The human observer ( one of infinite now 'existing' across all the universes ) ACTUALLY just happens to be in THAT particular universe which gets THAT one particular state. The alleged 'collapse' really is only what it appears to that one particular observer.
(( NOTE - Quantum attribute values have not just two possible states caused by these interactions, they can have MANY possible state values ... EACH.))
(( NOTE - 'collapse' refers to the shift from quantum probability int a definite non-quantum state AND NOT some fantasy crap about merging universes. ))
From a human's perspective, these near-infinite constantly multiplying universes would be beyond observation and interaction - rapidly outpacing any conscious interaction or relevancy.
One consideration : When this 'hypothesis' is assumed : Every photon in motion in the universe will interact may times - being absorbed and re-emitted as it moves about, each time obtaining a different quantum state when it reforms as a quantum object. Over every infinitesimally small period of time in the huge huge universe, there are countless quantum particles making countless constant interactions. SO by assuming this 'multiverse theory', there is a near-infinitely large number of split universes constantly existing and each tiny moment infinitely expanding into more universes.
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Note - PEOPLE ARE NOT QUANTUM OBJECTS. Quantum objects are simple unitary particles, without any complexity beyond that. SO there can be NO possible "decisive moment" in some person's life that has creating a quantum splitting in the universe. REAL Quantum Effects, according to the 'theory' they invoke, happens Continuously and Infinitely of itself as a background activity in the universe. Some alleged "Choosing between going out or staying at home" ( ie- Cage versus Key BS ), and "Getting Baptized" are thus NOT Quantum interactions. *Sound of Plot deflating like a Tire with a Leak in it* 
 "The only proper Zeppelin in Infinite BS] is the one that flies through this massive logic hole" - Hugo Eckener 
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Logical Induction : There would always be more Bookers/Comstocks than Elizabeth can ever get her revenge on, and it is simple Insanity/Delusion for her to think she can, or has done so. ( She is hardly a 'quantum god' if she doesn't know this little fact. ) Storyteller BS can really stink badly.
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QUANTUM BS (And 'BS' Was Its Name-O) :
The most basic concept about quantum objects is that when OBSERVED (affected by the observer) they stop being a thing with a probabilistic state - They 'decohere' and no longer are in quantum supposition - no longer existing in multiple possible universes ( as required in the that M-World hypothesis ). 
You may remember the story about Rosalind using a 'quantum particle' to send Morse Code messages between different universes - to Robert. ( - ... ... ) Dash Dot Dot Dot, Dot Dot Dot ("BS") To do so, it required manipulating that 'quantum particle' to send those dot and dashes - which would have immediately 'decohered' the 'quantum particle' into an ordinary object - no longer connected to that other dimension.
SO the Infinite BS game writers could NOT adhere to the simplest concept of the real idea they say they are using. They simply use the buzzwords, and then can't imagine some other way to make the Science ideas they 'toss in' to actually work properly. 
(( I guess it all sounded 'neat' to those who only have HEARD the buzzwords, but then they didn't see the NEED to have them actually reflect in the game what those 'sciencey' words really MEAN. )) 
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Reality Is Useless to The Infinite BS Game :
In Real Quantum Supposition the tiniest influence on one of the multiple particles ( assuming the multiverse theory version ) is enough to disrupt/end that Supposition and remove the alleged Quantum Entanglement. That is the problem with trying to use an analogy of Real Science as a plot device - the Science is quite restricted in its definition, and the author just starts to 'make up the rules as they go along'Best Selling Book : "Making Shit Up - It is What I Hate", By Albert Einstein 1905 to create the story they are trying to tell.
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"By Manipulation of a Pair of Quantum-entangled Atoms" - A ... 'Infinitely Improbable' ? :
And exactly how did Rosalind happen to find that one atom  ( consider a ordinary loaf of bread has a ballpark figure of  2.5 x 10^25 atoms in it, and she probably wasn't even looking at her sandwich that lunchtime ).
Oh, and what device existed then that could look at a single Atom ??  ( Or the thousand technologies existing needed to make such a device ?   Or did she invent ALL of those too ?? )
And just noticed it at that very point of time ? ( the improbability is increasing multi-geometrically )
But then you have to understand a little about this multiverse stuff and the INFINITE of INFINITEs  involved.
It turns out that EVERY atom in the universe is somewhere in all that INFINITY being manipulated by one of the INFINITE number of Luteces ( and some INFINITE number of other characters as well - HEY there's a multiverse explanation for 'Brownian Motion'  - Heh, they didn't think of THAT one ..... ).   SO in any one Universe somewhere, any atom Rosalind picked might in connect her to some version of herself ( the talking dog version would have been a real surprise when he came thru the Tear portal ),  and in turn would be ignored by the INFINITE number clones of herself who weren't signaling in Morse  code at that moment ( the ones signaling in the other INFINITE universe's Zippity-Do-Dah (or  whatever) code she completely didn't recognize or detect ).
Good thing she didn't signal and meet her 'Hannibal Lector' self, or the one from the universe where the  peoples blood is made up of what we call The Plague Virus ... Or the Anti-Matter universe. ( or any number of other totally possible mishaps ).   Seriously the possibility of a fatal something on the other side is very great (ANY Tear being opened is actually playing Russian Roulette with a gun with only one empty chamber ).
Lets not let the slight problem of the theoretical 'Quantum Entanglement' across interdimensional multiverses not being part of Quantum Physics fundamentally get in the way. ( Come to think of it,  'The Multiverse Theory' is not really part of Quantum Physics either, according to the majority of real quantum physicists, who say that theory breaks more things than it is supposed to resolve ).
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Since there's no real restriction on this stuff in Fantasy ( particular since they opened up the Pandora's Box of 'multiverse' infinites ), why not have enough multiple entangled atoms and grouped together cohesively to have an 'entangled' dinner gong, which might have been easier for whoever is  on the other side to notice ??
What if not one but an INFINITE number of other Luteces 'on the other side' were signaling all at once in different ways, with the result being that they all cancelled each other out ?? 
Hmm, another revelation --- any 'ghosty' thing in the world ( ... pick a world, any world ) is actually some form of Lutece 'on the other side' trying to use an atom (any and all of them) to signal someone, wherever, whenever, whoever....   ( all she ever got was commercials for dieting products -  "lose 5 pounds in your first week GUARANTEED!!!" )
Seriously, having Atlas shooting fireballs out of his ass are INFINITELY more probable than this multiverse infinity stuff working out.
Next - Quantum Physics suspending particles - NO!!!  ( Might as well just save the time and typing ... )   Magic - might as well just have handed Booker a Holly Wand.
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Branching Branching Branching ( That's the real 'theory' - ***INFINITE*** Continuous Branching ) :
Lotsa Problems with TimeTraveling QUANTUMZ :
* How exactly in a Quantum 'Multiverse' might you see everything to trace Forwards one specific 'thread' of alternate universe branches to find a desired future thread of Causality ( out of an INFINITE set of them, which ARE POSSIBLE at your current point in time ) ?? 
** DO YOU 'take a sampling' ( view a bunch) and probabilitize them ? 
** How many of those INFINITE Alternates do you 'look into' ?? 
** How much time does it take to accomplish JUST ONE ?? 
** Do you just Hope that you can just tell at a glance at ONE scene ( via open 'Tear' ? ) what is happening in each one ?? ( Cuz if it takes longer, you're gonna spend the rest of your Life TRYING to find what you are looking for - ASSUMING you can tell much of anything ).
* Same while Time Traveling Backwards for that matter ?? ( example - for Elizabeth to "Know" that Booker went bad when that Baptism happened ? OOPS, I FORGOT. THAT WHOLE DIMENSION GOD LOAD OF BULLSHIT. YES THAT'S VERY CONVENIENT THAT HAPPENED, WASN'T IT LEVINE&CO. LAZY WRITERS CRUTCH )
* We still haven't heard how you selectively *POSITION* your Tear on that other side - WHERE in an infinite Universe you somehow guide it to your desired spot ?? In many INFINITE universes, things just aren't even the same. It is no wonder that Levine & Co did not bother explain WHAT their Expert Quantum Consultant explained all about these kinds of issues to them.
* Things happening are the result of the interplay of INFINITE Influences. SO how many and which ones NEED you change ( after you've managed to identify them all )?? BTW YOU, in trying to change a few things, introduce NEW Influences with unknown and significant results of their own. Messy, ain't it ...
* You probably don't know/understand yet what your future holds, and what effect a (any) decision you ( or anyone else or even just randomness ) might make. How long does this Search thing ( which you need to do if you are not a 'god' ) take to work so that you can locate what might be (all) the future changes you want to make ?
That wonderful "Prophesying" Idea :
* Even if you saw ONE future, is IT the right Future ?? So what significance to see any particular view when it very likely (INFINITELY unlikely) WONT be YOUR future ??? You also can/might change things in your current time because you 'saw the future' (or think you did), AND Now THAT ONE FUTURE ISN'T THE FUTURE you thought you saw. ( Tiny differences can bring huge changes states via Quantum-compatible Chaos Theory ).
* BTW, With that ABSURD Compressed Timeline the Infinite BS game story is based on, IT DIDN'T ALLOW COMSTOCK MUCH TIME FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT "PROPHESIES" TO COME TRUE DID IT ?? Most People HAVE to see that he actually WAS a Prophet ( ordinary Apocalyptic Future 'prophets' are a 'Dime-A-Dozen' in the World ). That IS SUPPOSEDLY the basis in the story of his reputation as a religious 'prophet', AIN'T IT ? AND THAT ABILITY didn't/couldn't start til the Luteces did their thing ( Tear Machine ), and HE HAD TO FIRST GET *THAT* REPUTATION TO AFFECT THOSE USA POLITICIANS TO BUILD COLUMBIA - RIGHT ???? ( Examine the Infinite BS's timeline again to see how absurd this bit is ).
* Stealing shit from alternate universe branches is fine, cuz all you are doing is changing YOUR opportunities for YOUR reality, and YOU can decide : "Hey that's a USEFUL goody I can use !!!" ( You get to work that change along the way IN YOUR PRESENT TIMELINE ). Just Tossing it into the past to try to get a change you want has all the numerous INFINITE problems mentioned elsewhere.
* The same problem applies for Time Traveling - go back, change things, come back, and find that something Completely Different Like you suddenly enter the Monty Python Universe really happens cuz what you did did NOT lead to the change results you desired - again you so (INFINITELY) often cannot predict an outcome ( and maybe YOU just perturbed everything making you have to start completely over ).
* You may even have upset some other YOU in some INFINITE other Dimensions enough with your interference that THEY come to kill YOU and prevent YOU from existing -- Think about THAT !!!!
* The Simpleton's Understanding of Causation ( like written into Infinite BS ) - ignores the effects of SO MANY things you can't/don't change. And remember, there are INFINITE things -- infinitesimally small quark thingees to change according to the REAL "Quantum" theory they said they based the game on ( but really didn't ).
SOOO MANY PROBLEMS, SOOOO MUCH INCONSISTENCY, SOOOOO MANY BULLSHIT NON-EXPLANATIONS (FROM THE GAME WRITERS).
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Alternate World Picking and Choosing (From the "Infinite" ) :
This proposed theoretical Quantum M-Theory infinite dimensions idea is based on the need for the state uncertainty of ALL the universe's quantums ( all those Quark particles ) to explain the paradoxical Wave vs Particle issue. INFINITE INFINITE INFINITE.
Remember, the game's writers said in interviews that they "Consulted" with Quantum physics experts - So they have to have known the above definition of the Multi-Verse theory.
SO lets discuss what is shown in the game :
These "Tear" portal things seem to be the in-game method used for 'viewing' alternate universes, and for 'travel' to/from them. They somehow allow crossing the 'gap' between alternate universes. How this works is not explained, nor part of Quantum 'theory'.
Somehow, for the game's storyline to work, 'TEARs' get formed/picked/chosen/selected (VERY SPECIFICALLY) leading to somewhere relevant, and are (somehow) made to Open. They connect the current location to somewhere else.
These Tears into alternate universes also don't have to open into exactly the same place as the one on 'YOUR' side ( which at least if it did would be something predictable or 'linked' ). The Luteces did do this once apparently (Robert 'crossed over' to where Rosalind was).
But the Tears mostly go to somewhere else in a parallel world/universe -- Elizabeth looking at Paris and later selects a Tear to Rapture ( which IS at the bottom of the ocean ). SO somehow you CAN select the other sides LOCATION in the SPOT you kinda want. ( Note that Elizabeth mighta seen pictures of Paris, but she likely never went there to have any SOLID knowledge about that destination - where it really is in relation to herself. )
* Applying 'The Theory', this 'picking' is from a VERY INFINITE number of possible Alternative Universes. It happens that Infinitely more of the available Alternatives are NOT similar universes ( not a place where only a few things are different, as they ARE the product of bit of the universe splitting differently since the beginning of time ). Perhaps picking a universes only a 'little' different makes that selection easier ( some magical adjacency choice ??? ), or maybe not.
* PICKING a specific Location IN some other universe for a Tear to open up into, apparently is also done. Many times we saw them open TO somewhere convenient -- same location sometimes (ie-Chen Lin's shop), other times it is somewhere strange/different ( ie- marching band to block Booker following Elizabeth ).
* It is also rather magical/convenient when a Tear also happens to open across Time, and also gets the right Location in some similar 'Alternate Existence' universe.
Consider that Real quantum particles ( which supposedly make up the universe ) are too small to see ( they are almost infinitely small ), so they don't help much here to pick and choose from. Discerning differences in them is really really hard. Discerning the rest of the universe from them likewise is very hard/impossible. General Quantum Theory also says when you 'OBSERVE' a quantum object it 'Decoheres'- it ceased TO BE a quantum object. ( Ooops )
So how does this Tear 'destination' selection process work ?? DO you just open Tears hoping for the best when you have something specific in mind ?? ( Elizabeth peering at Paris ... ) Or do you just open another and another, til you get something good ?? Look through Millions, Billions, Trillions of them to find JUST THAT RIGHT ONE ???? ( That likely takes quite a bit of time, no ? ) BTW, the World and Universe are kinda big, so isn't that then making open to a desired place INFINITELY more unlikely ???
Just looking randomly could have you 'looking' til the end of time and still NOT finding anything like what you want. Adjacent Universes are 'similar' ( So just look 'adjacent' ??? How ?? ) Unfortunately infinite 'Adjacents' universes look and are almost completely the same ( or possibly MAYBE are 99.99% different in composition of all MATTER in the universe - EVERY TIME you try ).
Wish upon a star ? Can't be that, or Elizabeth woulda 'been outa there' ( Craphole Columbia ) so easily.
How this Universe Selection is achieved is never specified in the Infinite BS game.
You have *infinite* variables to shift, so exactly HOW do you find what is 'adjacent' anyway ? Any world/dimension/universe being different required multitudes ( ALMOST Infinite differences at the sub-atomic level). SO there is no SYSTEMATIC 'adjacency' possible. ( In one, Three atoms are missing from Booker's Left Toe - Does that add upto enough to make him 'evil' ? ) Thus, this multiverse selection is a bit more complicated than you might think ( The game writerz seem to portray it as 'easy' ).
* Next door a Mr QuantumX ( this time ) flipped itself left, and so an atom in some mote of dust now has an orientation a teeny bit out of kilter. That's not exactly HOW a different Universe where a Vox Rebellion winning is happening, is it ????? It takes some INFINITE number of tiny sub-microscopic changes to get something like that. BIG Differences takes LOTS of changes. The Problem is : HOW DO YOU FIND THAT ONE universe requiring so many indeterminate differences ???
SO, You have to somehow guide yourself to a desired destination ( to be on the other side of a "Tear" ), SOMEHOW, NO ?? Do you "concentrate with your inner eye" ( contemplate the tip of your nose ) to get what you want ??? Apparently no Magic Talisman is activated, nor herbs seen to be consumed to achieve this result. SO the whole idea is rather problematical as far as 'SCIENCE' is concerned.
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Things Just Happen That Way :
Oh ? It was just Probability that things went well in the Game ? Well then, the game shows some pretty weird Probability at work there to get such close-by (in space and time) convenient travel destinations RANDOMLY.
SO IT IS REALLY GOT TO BE SOME MAGIC POWER AT WORK THERE, DOESN'T IT ???? ( It is called Fantasy, Dude. )
YOU JUST "WISH UPON A STAR" ??? ( Magic )
YOU *WILL* IT TO BE WHAT YOU (Elizabeth) WANT ?? ( Elizabeth A Dimension God ??? , but then how did FINK achieve the same kind of thing working Tears ? ( Is *HE* a Dimension God too ? )
This is Hardly *Sciencey* at all, IS IT ??? Fantasy doing whatever the Hack Writers needed, and ignoring any real 'Science-like' logic/consistency, No ?
SO SIMPLY PUT : IT IS BULLSHIT ( That's the Ticket !! ) -- Obvious Bullshit, claiming to be 'Science'.
Being so loose with this game issue taints the rest of the story - The whole thing is based on Fantasy pixie dust (so the Racism, Religious portrayals, History, etc ... likewise are rendered into BULLSHITLAND ( BTW - IF you look at any/all those other game story elements through a critical lens of Realism, they ARE all bosh as well. It is all just the writer's Crappy/Flawed-Thinking/Bad-Storytelling infusing it all with a very bad smell ). So much for 'Storytelling' to 'Set this game apart'.
Attempts to be 'clever' by tossing alot of disjoint concepts at the Player simply failz.
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The Mistake of Latching Onto A Disreputable 'Theory' :
This M-World 'Theory' ( it is really a hypothesis ) of multiverses existing says there are Infinite Universes/Dimensions. It is an attempted explanation for the Wave vs Particle observations made about the behavior of light (photons). This M-World idea actually is a much rejected Hypothesis, as it breaks Fundamental Laws of Science - of Causality and Conservation of Matter/Energy. There is no measurable Proof showing that it exists, nor is provable as a 'real' process to even rate being a 'Theory'. It is just an imaginative idea for want of actual Science.
This hypothesis proposes a 'multiverse', where almost infinite individual quantum particle quarks ( ultra small theorized 'particles' ) each can resolve on observation into just one of many potential state combinations. It is an explanation for the presence of indeterminate states within Quantum Physics. When you look-at/observe a photon, it causes the quantum object to stop being in an indeterminate state allowing it to be measurable. This cannot be done non-passively, being an interaction/interference with the quantum object which looses its quantum probability. All states are present until this interaction, and you as the observer fall into a one possible universe where the particle has that one state. 
An extension of this M-World hypothesis is that there are infinite parallel universes containing ALL the states of all the quantum objects and the observer transitions between them upon interacting with just one of those objects. The 'act of interacting' then causes additional potential universes to come into existence (branching) when that one object/particle was resolved, but all the rest are still undetermined ( ready for the NEXT branching which produces infinite MORE Universes ). 
Note : the hypothesis applies to EVERY quantum object in the universe, which CONSTANTLY interact to cause these theorized branchings. Infinite 'infinites' increasing infinitely for a near infinite number of minute/trivial interactions. 
Complex objects like people (and world events) are themselves made up of near infinite numbers of 'quantum' objects, and those complex objects DO NOT BEHAVE as quantum objects themselves. The Prevalence of these MANY TINY objects has them averaging out to an extent that any and all activity simply forms a vanilla backdrop/background to the universes larger/macro complexity. 
Sounds Whacko-Jacko bizarre, doesn't it ? But Wait. For this idea to have ANY relevance to a fiction story, characters must have some means to traverse between these different Universes --- Or else, they never see nor interact with any of these infinite other universes. 
So fiction employing the M-World stories HAVE TO suppose you can traverse between different branchings of universes. After that, then there is the problem of PICKING WHICH universe you might manage to transfer yourself to. How THAT is accomplished is never explained in this the Infinite BS story, and simply is magically assumed to be done with no REAL assistance from Science. 
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Some fiction writers have fantasized FURTHER many 'theories' about this multiverse idea. They deal with the logical complexities of this fictional idea. The so called Eddies/Knots-in-Time Idea is an extension of the belief in fate ( Which doesn't scientifically exist, as it breaks basic Causation, and all the effects explained in Chaos Theory ). Unfortunately, it also contradicts the whole reason a QUANTUM-based M-World 'theoretical system' would exist in the first place. To fit the need for this Multi-Universe (M-Worlds) hypothesis, you have to have truly Infinite branching of universes FROM THE BEGINNING AND IN TIME WITH EVERY SINGLE TINY BIT of the entire universe. You CANNOT have conveniently selected quantum events done at a writers whim. 
This contrivance allows the fantasy writers to conveniently write their story so that traveling between these multiverses can have some reason ( their universes are largely macroscopically 'similar', with common events somehow limiting the branchings ). They might label this 'quantum theory', but it really has nothing to do with the actual hypothesis.
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THE BUSTING :
SO, the Infinite BS game writers have resorted to metaphysical effects ( ie- Magic Elizabeth, First Lady ghost, Dead Luteces, etc ... ). This now destroys/negates the whole 'scientific' aspect of that multiverse proposal - that which the game writers say the game is based on. The 'story' has become *ANY OLD SHIT THEY WANT* to generate their 'meaningful' scenes and contrived storyboarded situations. 
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Mutli-dimensional Inter-twisted Parallel Universes (M.I.P.U. ?) is NOT a great mechanism for a solid Plot. The Schrödinger's Cat Experiment :
* First, if you open a box full of poison gas - then YOU might also be dead.
* Second, if there are no air holes you wait long enough without opening the box - the cat will be dead, period.
* Third, if there ARE airholes and the cat is dead - you will know it by the smell without having to open the box.
Anyone else have the idea that Schrödinger maybe didn't like cats ? Lets redefine the experiment and put Schrödinger in the box instead ...
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SO This Nebulous Quantumz story pattern might be reflected with an example of The Burial at Sea Universe containing Three possible Elizabeths (Outcomes) : "Elizabeth in the Box" : 
Except that Elizabeth-State-2 knows about Elizabeth-State-1 having happened, which is NOT part of the (real theoretical) Quantumz mechanism -- it is called ENTANGLEMENT, and puts the Kabosh on the whole thing ... .
There is also a Elizabeth-0 that was in Columbia (several of them ?). Unfortunately people are NOT good candidates for exhibiting Quantum Properties ( which is the realm of the really 'teenie tiny'... usually frozen near 0 Degrees Kelvin == -459 degrees Fahrenheit !!! ). As humans are subject to infinite Entanglements ( being affected by their complex environment ), they cannot really be isolated from outside effects like Quantum Objects MUST be.
Maybe all this wacky stuff could happen -- *IF* Columbia fell into a Black Hole and the infinitesimal instant before its universe-offending lunacy was snuffed out ...
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It Is All There in The Actual Theory ... :
Infinite BS  should have been called "Quantum Farts"  ( the Faux/Pseudo-Science was alot of "passing gas" - which  BTW is ALOT closer to quantum sized objects required for Quantumz Effects to take place - Too bad the real quantum effects usually are required to be at near Absolute Zero ).
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Where Exactly in Quantum Theory Does It Mention Ghosts ??? :
Oh yeah, some Infinite BS game writer(s) had claimed they got an 'expert' on Quantum Physics in to talk to them when they were designing the game. Yeah, and then apparently the writers went off and did whatever they wanted to in the game, they just learned a few buzzwords to make whatever they wanted ***Quantum Physics*** ***Quantum Mechanics***:
* 'Entanglement' ( quantum objects being interconnected - really the same object being more than one place at a time )
* 'Decoherence' ? ( wave function collapse ... Oops, THAT is a competing theory to 'multi-worlds' )
* 'Multiverse' ( Multiple Worlds interpretation )
* "Superposition" ( the ability for a quantum object to hold/be in many states at once )
* 'Dimension' ( the 'world' part of the multi-world hypothesis which assume there are infinite dimensions )
* 'Particles' ( the smallest quantum objects can't really be "particles" as they have no dimensions )
* 'Constants' ( WTF? The VERY essence of quantum mechanics/physic stuff is its NON-Constant nature -- MEGA-FAILZ. )
Siphon - so these interdimensional powers seem to be able to be extracted from something ? An then where do they go ? Is Comstock filling up milk bottles with this substance like Howard Hughes and his urine ?? "Retrieve The Urine !!!" - What Comstock CRIES at Igor when he spots Booker comin' in through the Big Blimp's front door ...
Ghosts are supernatural objects. Not Science. Quantum objects are not sentient beings, which are too complex and constantly interactive to be quantum anything.
It is all just Orcs building Monuments out of their Own Excrement ...
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Columbia Is Held-up In The Air By Ghosts !!! :
This can be the only explanation. It cannot be anything technical/scientific.
Quantum Pinning ( what they appear to think they are using - at least at one time thought to use ) is the property of blocks (not particles) of superconductors to 'float' when suspended within (relative to) a VERY powerful magnetic field of very specific shape, mounted on the ground. This is NOT in evidence in the game. Columbia is supposed to move and the huge/powerful ground magnetic field generator would have to more with it ON THE GROUND. Also a magnetic field of the size and strength required would apply great force to anything normally magnetized within/near that field.
Rosalind didn't like the term 'Levitation', but that is exactly what has to happen with no supporting mechanism on the ground. There also is no particle "fixed in space", or that 'fixed' particle would shoot off at thousands of miles an hour as the planet/sun/galaxy motions all rotate and move relative in the universal reference frame. These particles have to hold themselves at an altitude above the earth - YET also have to be able to slide sideways as the city moves ( AND do this in concert with each other ).
Next how would you affix these 'particles' to solid structural components so they can hold up the rest of the physical matter that makes up the floating city ? Particles are teeny-tiny and have little surface area to fasten anything that would transmit the gravity forces of the weight of the City. No known materials even today have such Compressive or Tensile strengths - unless these particles are well-distributed, and VERY VERY numerous - almost countless numbers of them everywhere throughout the City.
Somesuch machinery outside of the 'Particles' is required. Electro-magnetic Beam devices to hold onto them? Assuming they are now somehow magnetic, and some way created to not pull every other metal object to them ... Even in our day of supermagnets and efficient electrics, we would have much of the city having to be huge magnet mechanisms to suspend the weight by these 'particles'. And the OTHER half of the city would have to be the engines to generate the energy/power needed to run those magnets ( and who knows where all the fuel needed to run the engines comes from - and Please don't go saying all that power comes from the Quantum Bullshit too ). Consider what happens if only a bit of that power ( or any part of the system actually ) FAILS ( HINT- plummeting city blocks, Screaming Columbians soon to be turned into splattered hamburger, after they fall and crash into the ground ).
So is this some Anti-gravity substance with many-many particles imbedded everywhere, using normal friction to enmesh them into the building materials ?? Are all these particles wired-up still to make this "Lutece Field" effect work ??? Or have they somehow been 'transformed' and imbued with this strange levitational ability, required to continuously support all that weight being applied to them ?? (( Are you starting to get the idea of how Star-Treky/Star-Warsy this stuff has to be to work and with Fink/Luteces basically technological cavemen ??? ))
Is a significant portion of Columbia made of this "Upsy-daisyum" ( of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame ), and the rest ( brick walls, stone/wood buildings, dirt, streets ) hanging or stacked (and BALANCED) using various support structures (girders, tension-rods and guywires) ? Is it now Self-balancing too ?? ( OR does when half the population of Columbia run over to stone somebody at 'The Fair', the City tilts over like a WW2 destroyer doing a full rudder turn at 35 knots ??? ) Imagine what happens when the Vox starts sabotaging the 'floaty' mechanisms ( which have to be everywhere ) ...
Intelligently Self-balancing and altitude/force maintaining, self powering, ( and we haven't even got started about how the thing gets moved ... )
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Ghosts - Yeah That's the Ticket !!!
So Infinite:BS is ALL Physical Law breaking ??? ... HEY that's Metaphysical shit there !!! GHOSTS and SPIRITS !!! THAT'S how you 'just do stuff' without any real reason/logic/'normal' way to explain it.
We saw that Spooky/dark Cabaret concept art ( certain people have attempted to declared 'concept' stuff as 'Canon' as to plot explanations ... ), which looked like a vampire hangout -- and we do have the manifestation of Lady Comstock laying in her native earth in that tomb don't we ??
SO doesn't that mean that Rosalind Lutece is a Witch who summons and controls Demons and Spirits ?? And then, it could be likely that Comstock, on finally learning this ( being that odd sort of pseudo-christian ) had Fink BURN her and her Warlock brother in her own hellspawned contraption ?? ( But cover it up so as not to appear as being 'duped' into this whole thing ).
SO, are the Saturnine symbols in Rapture related to this Witchcraft at all ?? ( as it is 'Prime' - because ole Ken said so ... ) Songbird is just a Golem ... well that explains it. AND They even have some magic potion called "POSSESSION" in the game. All we really needed to see was Elizabeth spitting out tons of green vomit and have her head spin around, and it all would have been so much simpler. People 'Remembering that they were Dead' in an alternate dimension ... yeah right ... much better for it to be 'hauntings' and such.
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!!! STOP BELITTLING THE DETAIL YOU HATER!!! Then (you writers) don't bring up real Science and claim it as the reason for something it cannot be. Just say it is 'Ganja Forces' or somesuch, and it just works 'cuz', like they usually do in Fantasy. Then you can get on with your illogical/bizarre plot without distractions. Come to think of it, the religion crap and pseudo history garbage was just as fallacious. Three Strikes and YOURRRRR OUT!!!
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Of Ghosts and Sirens :
How do you kill (or hurt) a Ghost ? Booker apparently does the 'hurting' with his worldly weapons ( no crucifixes or holy water/oil, or metaphysical invocations, or 'crossed beams', etc ... )
I'm sure all this is because of Quantumz, like everything else, No ? I hope all our scientists realize what all these Quantumz things are good for ( They still are shit for "Quantum Computing", so far ... ).
So 'the Siren' can bring dead (soldiers) back to life ? ( BTW, what exactly IS the scientific 'quantumz' explanation for 'reanimation' ? Rotting corpses moved by magical Quantumz forces ? Wouldn't it be rather easy to simply knock Booker over the side to plummet to his death ? Mommy Dearest, indeed. )
Shouldn't this be a power that Elizabeth should also have ? Then she could just bring back to life all the unfortunates she passes by (Like Chen Lin or Fink's Son, that Horsie, etc ...). Isn't that what she does for Booker over and over ? ( Or does she inject him with the magic Egyptian 'Tana Leaf Tea Extract' to reanimate HIM each time - hmm, that would make him a zombie, wouldn't it ???? Unfortunately, she apparently doesn't have enough for all the other poor unfortunate dead people. )
Damn. The MMORPG isn't going to include the fantasy-magicy spillover from Infinite BS, so Ryan can't come back as a ghost ( but then he needn't, as he never died anyway. )
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That Tear and Merging Thing ... :
Quantum 'Teleportation' - "Although the name is inspired by the Teleportation commonly used in science fiction, there is no relationship outside the name, because Quantum Teleportation concerns only the transfer of information." ( From article on REAL QUANTUM stuff )
So does this ^^ mean that the 'memories' are all that is transmitted to 'the other side' ?? So Booker and Elizabeth don't actually travel through any 'Tear' - They just think they did. (( HEH - And they are still standing like goofs back in the place they came from ??? ))
It is really convenient that their counterparts are thus standing around like stooges ( other side of THAT Tear ) waiting right there to be imprinted with these new 'memories' being "Teleported" ( or is it better called 'Merged' ?? ) Collapsed together ??? That might be rather strange if at the destination their counterparts are busy doing other things at the time.
(( BTW, is this mixing process of these "memories" symmetrical (going both ways) ?? And with different life events for each of the people involved ( on either side of the Tear ), might that result in some rather strange mixed up personalities - insanity - ex- Booker suddenly starts ranting about 'red bowling pins, which are "out to get him" or demanding to know "who stole his rabbit ears" ?? ))
Does 'Tear' travel create soul-less creatures ? Particularly where Booker was already dead in one case on the destination side ??? Well that might explain Elizabeth's callously/carelessly seeking Revenge evilness, 'no matter what the cost' ( She's done more Tear transition weirdness than anyone else ). 
"Makes you think ..." 
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This is a laboratory experiment/demonstration from which the Infinite BS designers/writers got their faulty idea for the way Columbia floats. There is no "fixed in space" in REAL Quantum Physics. Note the small disk of Superconducting material ( the shape is important ) floating only a tiny distance above that base ( it really only works on the small scale ) which is a VERY strong magnet ( that frost showing that it is cooled way down near Zero degrees Kelvin allowing the superconductor to work ).
Oh you say, they have maglev for trains ?!?!? Yes, and they too 'float' mere inches above incredibly powerful electro-magnets ( the meager spacing and magnets below being completely missing in Columbia's Fantasy 'float' mechanism ). 
Remember, 'It is only a game' ... actually "It IS only a FANTASY Shoot-Em-UP game with rather lame combat, and alot of hype about its cockamamie story and fake science".
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A Real Quantum Computer (130 years later than the Floatyshit(tm) began in Columbia) which has to be suspended near absolute zero temperature to work.
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