Quantum Improv

[poltergasm]

Ever heard of the theory of Quantum Immortality? A brief, great explanation can be found here:

http://www.mindpowernews.com/QuantumImmortality.htm

But basically: You can never really die. Every choice you make produces alternate universes. Let's say you detonate a bomb. When you click the detonator you will either blow up, or, in a few rare circumstances, survive due to some weird malfunction. In those realities where the bomb exploded, you're dead----kaput, no consciousness, no nada.

But WHOLE NEW UNIVERSES spring up when you click that detonator. And in a small percentage of those universes you survived. Maybe the bomb didn't explode, maybe you dodged the fireball, maybe a giant eagle swooped in to save you. However it happens, you're alive. And because you're alive you have consciousness, i.e., you know and see and feel you're alive.

And that's the only universe that matters, that one in which you're alive and lucid. So in summary: you can never actually die.

It's just a theory, folks. But it's one whose application to improv seems obvious.

Every move we make onstage (or don't make) has consequences. Using this theory, there are nearly infinite versions of every improv show going on in parallel (though different) universes. Every possible version of our show is played out in an ever-growing branching tree of improv. It's exponential, man!

I don't know what my point is. Except maybe: isn't that interesting? And doesn't buying into this theory, of Quantum Improv, let us off the hook? Doesn't it give us permission to fuck up, because hey, there's another show going on right beside me in which I didn't fuck up...?

Thanks.

[Spots]

I film alot of shows. Every time there's a mindblowing show that I missed filming, this is exactly how I breathe a sigh of relief.

"The show wouldn't have been the same."


If I walked into the room a little earlier, a little later, with a camera-- with a hat on. Whatever.

There's a tiny effect on the environment.

Improv shows are the result of the environment in which they take place. Take one audience member out of the room. Take one conversation out of the preshow warmup. Put a bench an inch closer to the stage. And inch further away.

I know exactly what you mean.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

this thought has literally filled my every waking moment since i first discovered it at the age of 7. sometimes, i think i'd have been better off without it...then realize there are countless universes where i WAS!

[jillybee72]

On the list of improv notes I keep giving even though they don't help anyone is this:

"If you think a scene sucks, there must be another ideal scene in your head that you're comparing it to. Do that scene instead."

[mia]

This just makes me want to watch Sliders.