Quantum Radio

by A.G. Riddle

“At this moment, you are in the dark. But there is light, Miss Santos. The sun always rises. The question of a life is whether we possess the courage to wait long enough for the dawn.”

We soon discovered that across the multiverse, life on Earth was the exception, not the rule. And so was an atmosphere survivable by humans. Yet we persisted. We made a sort of map of the multiverse, marking the Earths that were hospitable to human life. They were rare too. And on those habitable Earths, every now and then, we found one populated by humans.”

“You might think that means there aren’t that many inhabited Earths. But the nature of infinite numbers dictates otherwise. While only a very small fraction of these worlds were inhabited, there are an infinite number of universes, and because even a small fraction of an infinite number is itself an infinite number, there are, thus, an infinite number of inhabited human worlds, more strange and varied than you can imagine. And some so similar to your own that you’d have to study them a lifetime to find even the tiniest difference.”