Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about controversial new research that suggests meditation kills motivation, a

quantum physics thought experiment where you never die,

and how you can boost your performance at work

by doing things that aren't work.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Today we're just gonna dive right into quantum mechanics. No warm-up. Yeah, that's fine.

It's fun, I swear. We're really not going to get into like hard math or anything like that.

We're going to talk about a thought experiment called

quantum suicide where you never die. But let's back up and talk a little bit about

quantum mechanics. The laws of the quantum world are kind of strange, and that's why quantum physics is full of thought

experiments.

Schrodinger's cat might be the most famous one.

It goes like this.

If you put a cat in a box with a vial of poison that has a 50-50 chance of killing the cat,

then the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box.

That's because it's in a superposition of states.

Well, in the quantum suicide thought experiment, you're the cat, except

you never die. Here's how it goes. Imagine a gun is hooked up to a machine that measures

the spin of a quantum particle every time the trigger is pulled.

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