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18 Reddit comments about Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. (Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens) (cover color may vary):

u/ebmyungneil · 12 pointsr/ProgrammerHumor

There is a Choose Your Own Adventure book/comic called Meanwhile that blew my mind as a kid with a similar concept. If you chose to eat chocolate ice cream (the first choice), eventually you met a professor who built a machine to guarantee a coin flip will come up heads. He rigged a machine to destroy the universe if the coin is tails, so existing after pushing the button means your coin must necessarily have landed on heads. The book gets even trippier after that, but that’s what stuck with me the longest. It’s a pretty solid read in the YA section, and a basic but solid introduction to quantum mechanics.

u/lightninhopkins · 7 pointsr/books
u/qwantz · 7 pointsr/comics

It's hard to find because he makes them by hand, but also check out "Meanwhile", published by Amulet.

http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265263413&sr=8-1

It's a choose-your-own-adventure comic that's brilliant - you follow different paths throughout the comic, and it does some stuff with the medium I've never seen before. Super impressive.

u/jacobb11 · 5 pointsr/Fantasy

This one is relatively recent and pretty awesome: Meanwhile

u/gryfft · 4 pointsr/rational

Oh man! I love Shiga's comics, but hadn't visited his site this year. I highly recommend Meanwhile (I had to buy a physical copy) and Fleep is also very good.

This Jimmy is long on rationality and short on ethics. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

u/LexiD523 · 3 pointsr/comicbooks

What sort of comics does she already read? What's her reading level in general?

Those questions aside:

  • The Babymouse series by Jennifer and Matthew Holm
  • The Magic Trixie series by Jill Thompson
  • The two Miss Annie books by Frank Le Gall and Flore Balthazar
  • Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
  • Meanwhile... by Jason Shiga. It may seem a little advanced, but my friend's twin girls loved it when they were about 6.
u/MechAngel · 3 pointsr/books

If you liked "Choose Your Own Adventure," please, for the love of all that's awesome, check out Meanwhile by Jason Shiga. It's a "choose your own" comic story that's wicked funny.

u/drzowie · 2 pointsr/AskPhysics

Many-worlds (the idea that the Universe splits every time a wavefunction collapses) is not fully falsifiable: there is no experiment you can do to show that it doesn't happen, since the outcome you experience is that your experiment worked in a conventional, allowed way. Many-worlds is confirmable in the sense that you can combine that idea with solipsism to do some truly amazing things. In particular, in a true many-worlds universe, it is impossible for you to commit suicide. All outcomes that involve both (A) you trying to commit suicide and (B) you experiencing that fact are the outcomes in which you survive. So you can do silly things like reverse entropy by massively trimming the branching tree of Universes. There are a nifty series of gedankenexperiments in the delightful non-linear graphic novella Meanwhile. But if you try the experiment and many-worlds is wrong, you end up really dying in the only real world there is -- so it's not possible to falsify the many-worlds interpretation that way. You just end up dead and not able to falsify anything.


But there is more reason to think that many-worlds is a fundamentally flawed concept. The idea of "quantum collapse" itself is a shorthand for something more nuanced: quantum decoherence. In more modern interpretations, collapse (the fundamental branchpoint of the many-worlds interpretation) is seen instead as a combination of "quantum decoherence" and "quantum ignorance" (both of which involve the wave function losing predictive power due to unknown/uncontrolled interaction with the rest of the Universe). The latter is particularly useful because it sidesteps paradoxes like the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox: in that (quantum Bayesian) view, quantum "collapse" can happen at infinite speed, because it's not actually happening in the Universe -- it's happening in the mind of the physicist doing the experiment. In those more modern understandings, there's no need for collapse to be elevated to a fundamental event as it is in many-worlds or in the Copenhagen interpretation. It is a consequence of ordinary evolution of the wavefunction.

u/Boldly_GoingNowhere · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

There's a great graphic novel called "Meanwhile" that's a CYOA book. Lots of little details, oodles of possibilities.

u/skyrmion · 1 pointr/Futurology

http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

this is a funny choose-your-own-adventure comic. sometimes the reader can end up "losing" and the reader's ability to naturally restart their adventure in the comic is justified as destroying parallel universes, and switching to extant universes.

i think a version of it can be found online.

u/veronicalovesarchie · 1 pointr/tipofmytongue

Yeah, definitely sounds like Meanwhile by Jason Shiga https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

u/rajma45 · 1 pointr/graphicnovels

The concept is certainly interesting, especially the gamification. That aspect might be enough to set it apart from Jason Shiga's Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. which, for my money, is the gold standard for this type of book.

I also notice that these are translations from the French, which is a good sign. Has anyone read the originals? Do you have any insight into how well they work in practice?