Quantum Particles Can Do Anything

* See also Quantum Hokem << A concise analysis of the Quantumz BS in Infinite BS
* See also Quantum_TimeTravel
* See also Elizabeth and her Pinky
* See also Ghosts_In_Columbia
* See also Real Physics ( to try to not be Bad Fantasy )
* See also M-World_Hypothesis
* See also Tear_Via_Machine
* See also Magic_Fantasy and Wave_of_the_hand
* See also How_To_Do_Quantumz
* Scientific Buzzwords Misused To Make A BUCK
* See also Tower_and_Siphon
* See also NO_Autopilots_In_Columbia
== "You Can Have Magic-like Technology In Your Game, BUT DO NOT Attempt to Actually Explain It Scientifically" - Carl Sagan==
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We see these things around Columbia, but not everywhere. Where were all the 'Particles' used to make all the pieces of Columbia Float. If you smash enough of these will the "Float" fail ? They don't look 'structural' - like all the weight hangs from it. I guess "Game Worldbuilding 101" was not one of the books that the gamemakers 'consulted'.One of the Gamemaker interviews has one of the developers say they consulted a 'quantum' expert as they were doing their design. Is it a "Field" ? Burial At Sea says otherwise. Hundreds of tons hang from this thing ??? It really needed to be something that was NOT just Vaguely "Glued On".
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Quantum Juice - 'Vigors'
Quantum Suppositories - 'Notions' with Fink's new 'Time Release' TechnologyQuantum Suppositories - That thing those 'evil doctors' inserted into Elizabeth's back in Infinite BS was 'nearly there' ... 
Quantum Mortar - Those magical 'particles' added to mortar to build those floating brick buildings ...
Quantum Pinky - In that OTHER universe someone found the cut off Pinky, which exhibited miraculous properties. Eventually it was Worshiped as a New god ...
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Quantum Multiple Universes - It is just Theory/HYPOTHESIS ( and Generally Rejected by the Majority of Quantum Physics Scientists ) :
"There has always been "research" into these theoretical crossing/overlapping dimensions" -- Usually by charlatans because any serious researchers have had little evidence to show for this Theory/Hypothesis ( Which is just a theoretical model that helps explain certain physical effects, while at the same time breaking the most fundamental Laws of Physics ).
So SOLUTION : Elizabeth is a Jr. Show/Circus Magician ( therefore doesn't need the Harry-Potter magic wand ), and Songbird is a giant puppet, AND to make it all work Booker is in the middle of a hallucinogenic Fever Dream gotten from drinking one too many doses of bad Patent Toothache medicine ( is really laying in a pool of his own vomit back in his booze-scented tenement room ).
Simple. Twisty. And perfectly possible. No further explanations needed ... PLEASE - No fake science ...
Let the Blast-fest begin and Most Players won't care 'one way or another'. ( I wonder if they could allow you to fire at that Big Cy-boid ? As long as there is sufficient explosions and blood flying, they won't care. ) Have Booker be drowned in his hallucination a second time in that weird Rapture-like place, and have him wake up choking on his vomit. They can still thus claim it is 'BioShock', but put the effort for anything further done in that whole demented scene into 12 more Fun Ways to Disembowel"Fun Ways to Disembowel" : Game "Execution Moves" - more work was put into them than into trying to fix all the plot holes in Infinite BS. with the 'Skyhook', and most Players would have preferred THAT. The DLC then coulda been a game on the that original 'good' Skylines ( entire city big level seen in a promotional trailer ) - and maybe with a Multiplayer Cooperative mode.
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Game Assets developed early (SteamPunky-ism), but are Contradictory ( ADAM is organic 'genetic modification' isn't it ? ) to the DLC Revelation of O M G Rapture and Infinite Columbia ARE LINKED !!!!!!!!!! (RetCon...)
SO, exactly how much ADAM would it take for this technological use ?? These things like this machine are everywhere. ( ADAM was hard to obtain in Rapture. For Columbia so much harder ... Columbia ADAM - it might as well come from extraction from magic-child Elizabeth's feces - the REAL Siphon.)
Particularly with any inefficiency like the 10 X Drinkable stuff they stuff into the Burial At Sea DLC ???
== "Quantumz Can Do Anything" now is "ADAM Can Do Anything" ==
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Here is a variation of a Meme used in good fictional writing : Explanations given are vague, and purposefully *NOT* making reference to some bullshit 'Science' fakery. The changes (or non-changes) of Society brought by some NEW technology is the REAL point of Science Fiction. Skilled writers use made-up names and technological terms, so the Game Players cannot easily complain about some 'advanced' new science/technology in the story being a misuse of *Real* Science.
 TV Tropes (A VERY GOOD WEBSITE) about this kind of thing (And Much Much More)
What REAL Quantum Physics/Mechanics (Particles ?) CANNOT do :
* Create a 'portal' to allow ( disputed and mostly rejected ) Crossing between some (hypothesized) Multiverse universes
* Create GODS that can control the transitions/reality between the hypothesized Multiverse universes
* Prove there ARE other hypothesized Multiverse universes
* Make things float via 'particles' ( Real "Quantum" type particles are INSIDE every electron and Nuclear particle )
* Artificially work outside of temperatures/environments within tiny fractions of a degree of ABSOLUTE ZERO ( -273.15 degrees Centigrade, which is −459.67° Fahrenheit )
* Make things float (without the levitation using 'quantum tunneling' of electromagnetic fields within superconductors, and employing HUGE powerful machines to generate the extremely strong magnetic fields which ARE required.
* Give you nosebleeds and make your brains run out your ears
* Time Travel when going to another of these hypothesized Multiverse universes
* Make (real) Gears and Steam-Age technology do the calculations for some working self-navigating autopilot
* Cannot walk and chew gum at the same time ( any of all of the above )
* On exposure, make do human aging - even if only done (strangely) to one person 
* Power anything, or give off glowing light ( light - the emission of photons, is 'interaction' which makes quantum objects cease to be in any quantum state ).
Branches of the Quantum Multiverse ( Quite Sufficiently absurd, that it is Not Even "Theory" )
Think of THIS as Elizabeth's Quantum Branching Universe Google Map -- Except it is for one second of a timeline and for just one person ( and still far too small by a billionth ) and it should have a million dimensions. YOU probably have trouble examining a Map with more than Two dimensions - and great trouble visualizing more than Three. 
Quantum_TimeTravel
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Real Quantum Levitation (floatyness) is a nice lab trick, but has far too many limitations/complications for practical use.
Mag-Lev which DOES levitate things like trains, DOES NOT REALLY USE QUANTUM ANYTHINGFor "Mag-lev" (Magnetic Levitation) - the superconductors which would have some useable quantum properties just don't practically exist yet.
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The proposed game Quantum Technology WOULD have gotten out to the Rest of the World, and The World would quickly do far more with it than Comstock and Fink and the Luteces could ever dream of.
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Quantum Buzzword - "Superposition" :
The no-cloning theorem in general Quantum Mechanics says : You cannot copy a quantum object ( an object in a state of superposition because any action you take upon it decoheres it - making it NO LONGER a Quantum Object ). In quantum mechanics, quantum decoherence is the loss of coherence. Decoherence occurs when a system interacts with its environment
Oops, can't send Booker/Elizabeth/Comstock thru that Tear - cuz the REAL Physics say "NO". But But But, it is shown somehow that their consciousness lands in THAT Universe ( and then their body 'conflicts' with what is already there, for that 'Merging' thing to take place, and causes blood to ooze out of their noses and ears ) -- which BTW is an indicator of FAR greater mental/brain damage Merge damaged Booker starts yelling DERRRRRRRPPPPP !!!! randomly for the rest of the game ... . 
Oops, "Logic-Need-Not-Apply" ?? There is not much logic to be found in Infinite BS, generally anyway. It has Whack-A-Doodle Physics ... To Go along with the Whack-A-Doodle History, and Whack-A-Doodle Religion those writer came up with.
Well, How about their Souls getting lost when they leave this world (when Tear portal traversing), and if there is a disturbance during this 'transfer' they become ghosts like Lady Comstock did ??? Oops, Meta-Physics isn't "Sciencey" ? ( !!!! Then WTF is Lady Comstock's 'Deal' ?????? )
The illogic comes at you every-which-way in that game. Too many cobbled together ideas/themes, too much confusion, too much hack writer ignorance.
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Elizabeth - The Process To Become a Quantumz 'god' :
WHEN : Leave apart of themselves in another dimension ... Is that all ? How much 'Soul' lives in a 'Pinky' ? Do strands of hair qualify ? Dandruff ?? Exactly how much tissue/matter does it take to qualify for this imbued godhood ?
We saw Tears on statues and such in Columbia (kinetoscope). So were their some pigeons who 'left' stuff after flying/going thru other Tears at various points ?? Does that count too ? (( BTW - are these special pigeons to exist at 15000 feet altitude ?? Birds are greatly affected by thin air and Pigeons are usually living at low altitude and don't fly very high. ))
Fingernail clippings or dandruff should work, no? ( Probably making Booker a potential dimension god too - possibly why/how he appears to Elizabeth in BaS2 ). This "Constant" thing is just a strange obsession of Elizabeth's as there are an INFINITY of other universes too ( She might have been better off finding her way to a 'happy' Paris, instead of fixating on the Bookers ... 'Water under the bridge' and all that ( which you can also have better in Paris. )
Sally must've got godhood in spades - losing a head. Does one have to survive this separation/leaving-behind part-of-you ? Or is godhood instilled, bringing instant transcendence and a flavor of zombiefication ( Or maybe Fink could put the head quickly on a Handyman rig ?? - NOW THAT WOULDA BEEN A "HEAVY HITTER" WORTHY OF THE NAME !!!! ) The possibilities are endless.
This Tear-severed body-part process all apparently was whatever the writers say it was. This is the least of the faulty pseudo-science issues ( just another symptom of 'Quantum Physics Can Do Anything' half-arsed plot devices ).
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Sciencey Game Terminology ( It is All Subject To Writer's Misuse/Abuse ) : 
Infinite BS abuse of Quantumz - SO, You might as well misuse the rest of the related terminology ...
: Wave Function ( "I'm just not a 'particle' kind of girl" )
: Bose Condensate ( "CONDENSATE this Sucka !!!" )
: "Spin" ( "Oh Booker, You'd think your SPIN was abnormal !!!" )
: Tears Quantum "Tunnel" to Excitement and Adventure ...
: "Excitation State" - for the 'shield thingee', where higher means more energy to deflect, or Booker just found Lady Comstock 'hot'...
: "Orbital Quanta" - your power level - electrons jump to higher 'energy states' as an atom absorbs energy ( Note- This has nothing to do with "Trans-Orbital Lobotomy" ... )
: "Probabilistic" - likelihood you are NOT where that bullet is ...
: "Entangled" - "What you mean ENTANGLED, Willis ??" ( Oops this was previously (BS2) implied )
Of course all this kind of stuff means that Booker has 'Quantum Particles' in his magic pants (Gearz), and Wears portable Tears as part of his kit ...
There is always "A Particle, A Constraint, and Entanglement" ( City, Man, Lighthouse are ALWAYS optional in the bigger scheme of things ).
So if Booker with Lizzy go through a Tear into a universe where his "Belt of Discount From Stamp Machines" doesn't Exist (never was invented), THEN that thing Booker is wearing 'goes weird' ( Dimensional Discordance ... ) and his pants suddenly fall down ??? Or does the now contradictory object suddenly become a Black Hole that starts crushing him ( the real screaming begins ... That reminds me : Elizabeth at the end of Infinite BS at the 'Baptism Scene', could have just giving Booker a Trans-Orbital Lobotomy and so solved the whole problem WITHOUT committing Murder ) ?
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Quantum Recording :
Infinite:BS had those individual ridiculous Voxophone "recorders", which aren't even the right kind of mechanism to MAKE recordings, AND are perfectly shaped to destroy their exposed records ...  Nah, I'm just too logical.   But then, we invoke the magic word 'Cuz' and sprinkle on some Pixie Dust -- BETTER might have been the Player talking into a Fink Mfg. 'Recording Orb' ( a pretty glowey thing that pulses with the sound stolen from the 'Fonzy' Dimension ), or some other whizbang fantasy technology -- Hey you know : Quantum Particles can do anything ....  I'm sure Fink could easily invent it in a short afternoon, and have it ready for sale the next day ...  
Hmm... You drink a potion and the thoughts start to circle your head in a pretty multi-hued lightshow ...  With ghostly voices intoning/chanting the message with guaranteed preservation for eternity...   Why be mechanically absurd, and have it be so mundane, when such Infinite possibilities ( and game special effects ) are possible ???  Lets make it so : Fink stole the ADAM secrets, improved them, and grew wondrous Carrots that could remember messages ...  We could have had an interesting freakshow which would have had the Players wondering what they would find around every next corner ...    
As The Comedian Steve Martin would have said -- "Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh ..."
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Statement : "Time-paradox" problem and the "space-time relativity" issue are all antiquated notions when compared to the physical realities represented by quantum mechanics and this particular storyline."
Reply : Notions about some THEORY being any better/less absurd than 'notions' about more antiquated THEORIES ??    It is all balderdash and a distraction to any story which is SUPPOSED to be about the Characters ( and allegedly some historic social issues the writers are nostalgic/fixated about mis-recounting ).
"An Infinite multi-universes averaged together equals Zero" - That's the effect of a supposedly 'clever' game story gimmick that only 'waters down' everything in the game - because nothing is significant anymore.   Everything that took place has no import in the end -- "Wave the Hand" and it can all be Undone ( a cheap-out like just hopping to another dimension where your problem is solved - Elizabeth should simply have Tear'd to 'Nice' Fantasyland Paris from the very start ).  
We could've had a 'Free Comic Flash App Game' do pretty much the same.   Platform 'Runner' games have cardboard cutout characters with alot less effort ( and without a $100 million production pricetag ).
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Quantum Particles Meet "Tachyon" Particles ( 'Cornholeum'Reference to god "Cornholio" of Beavis and Butthead fame ... is made from This ) :
Much superior to the Quantumz - They make everyone gods and instantly supply the Player with 'win' so that they can finish the stupid game, and get on with something better.
Example of 'the Tachyon Effect' : A game that takes 5 years to produce, which only lasts 8 hours with rather meager Player replay desirability.
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Examples of That "Uncertainty Principle" Thing ( Idea behind the 'Cat in the Box' Thought Experiment ) : 
* Ryan is Alive and Not Alive ...
* A "Guiding Principal" for Rapture seems to be happening/existing - But you just don't know til you Play ... ( Observation Decoherences Quantums from their Superposition states ). The hidden underlying mechanisms of the World can be mysterious.
* Might the MMORPG game, having good "generated" Missions ( which you CANNOT just "Look them up on the Internet" to get their solution ), blow the minds of a majority of Players ?? Having Players actually THINK - What a Novel Concept !! ( And those missions can go either way - results are "Uncertain" ).
* We Open the Box AND FIND : the Gianourmous Faux-Rapture Contamination from Infinite BS is DEAD !!!
* Some Cats put 'dead cat' Levine in a box ??? ( Schrödinger must've been a 'Dog' person. )
* Sander Cohen - SOOOOO Unpredictable ... ( "We put the Little Moth in the Box, then We Observe ..." )Observation Collapses the Quantum State ...
* "The Only Constant in the Universe is : Most Gamemakers are Hacks ..." - Sid Meier
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Big Expensive machines, not something done in some dilettante's library/basement. SO : Rosalind Lutece doing anysuch ? Even primitive knowhow/technology like this was still decades away.
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== THE DERPINO PARTICLE ==
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Bad Fantasy 'World Building' - Not Even Consistent With Itself.
AND THEN THEY USE IT TO CREATE A 'god'.
INFINITE WASTE.
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