All the Myriad Ways
by Larry Niven · first published 1971
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All the Myriad Ways is a collection of 14 short stories and essays by science fiction author Larry Niven, originally published in 1971. Contents "All the Myriad Ways" "Passerby" "For a Foggy Night" "Wait it Out" "The Jigsaw Man" "Not Long Before the End" "Unfinished Story #1" "Unfinished Story #2" "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" "Exercise in Speculation: The Theory and Practice of Teleportation" "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" "Inconstant Moon" (Made into an Outer Limits episode) "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?" "Becalmed in Hell"
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Quantum immortality is a neat thing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit... ). I'd suggest the short story All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven ( https://erenow.net/common/the-best-alternate-history-stories... ) and the exceedingly long story Nangurz ol Arny Fgrcurafba (rot13 because it kind of is a spoiler).
on “Shor, I’ll do it (2007)” ↗All the Myriad Ways - by Larry Niven https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10/page/n31/m... Not a time travel premise, but rather a parallel universe approach... for that I'd suggest The Theory and Practice of…
on “Ask HN: If you could go back in time” ↗Give All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven a read - https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10#page/n31/mo... . Its not a world (or multiworlds) I would want to live in.
on “Why Hasn’t the World Been Destroyed in a Nuclear War Yet?” ↗Larry Niven had a nice short story on that, called "All The Myriad Ways". The Wikipedia article on the short story collection of the same name [1] includes a link to the story itself in their collection of old Galaxy issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Myriad_Ways
on “The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems” ↗See the classic Larry Niven short story Inconstant Moon, collected in All the Myriad Ways.
on “Stellar Explosion in Earth's Proximity” ↗I'd recommend reading the short story All the Myriad Ways by Niven ( https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10/page/n31/m... ) and Anathem by Neal Stephenson (which is much longer than a short story). Also on the subject, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortalit...
on “How Will the Universe End?” ↗Back in his collection All the Myriad Ways, Larry Niven wrote a brief essay called "The Theory and Practice of Time Travel" that explored ideas like these. One excerpt: > GIVEN: That the universe of discourse permits both time travel and the…
on “DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of Extra Dimensions (2010)” ↗Reminds me of a short-story, "All the Myriad Ways" by Larry Niven, although that was almost the opposite, because it dealt with a different kind of "pointlessness". Specifically, about how choices were robbed of meaning when -- in some universe or another…
on “The secret lives of long-lived particles” ↗There's also All the Myriad Ways by Larry Niven - https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10/page/n31/m...
on “Universe Splitter” ↗…going vigilante on evil people I'd probably just start doing things that I've always thought might be fun but had too high a risk of death to consider. Not quite the same scenario, but the short story "All the Myriad Ways" by Larry Niven covers a kind of similar situation. In that story people develop travel to parallel universes, and discover that the idea that every possible decision creates parallel universes where…
on “‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’” ↗