quantum stew first step ( for any "Mr. Nobody" sequel )

If a sufficient number of photons travel through a double-slit to trigger a latch controlled by a detector such that either food is added to the trough of a crowded rabbit hutch or one rabbit is allowed to escape that hutch — well in either event we may be excused for thinking that the universe may not so much have split as merely to have answered a possible question as to whether we should have brought a shotgun with the gunny sack.

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