What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

by Adam Becker

Everett argued that this line of reasoning leads inevitably to solipsism—the idea that you are the only being in the universe, and everyone else is somehow illusory or secondary, existing in states of indeterminate reality until you, the High Arbiter of Wave Function Collapse, deign to observe them.

In accordance with his wishes, his family had him cremated, and left his ashes out with the trash.