Quantum Mechanics In Pop Culture

Catching up on Nurse Jackie episodes last night (I'm referring to the episode from two weeks ago), Eddie, the hospital's pharmacist and Jackie's paramour-slash-opiate hookup, used a moment of post-coital bliss in the pill storage room to posit that--due to the tenets of quantum physics--he and Jackie might exist in a separate, parallel universe where they wouldn't have to hide their relationship.

Specifically, he used the ol' one-electron-can-be-in-two-places-at-the-same-time gambit. Eddie, you sly dog, you. You know the ladies can't resist such mind-bending pillow talk!

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