- Hugh: So, listen to this. This is what he's written. "There is another theory: that two states continue to exist... separate and decoherent from each other, each creating a new branch of reality... based on the two outcomes. Quantum decoherence ensures that the different outcomes... have no interaction with each other."
- Mike: This whole night we've been worrying... there's some dark version of us out there somewhere. What if we're the dark version?
- Laurie: Em, you seem to be the comet expert here. What happened the last time?
- Em: This one passed over a hundred years ago, but much farther.
- Laurie: But do we know about anything that happened?
- Em: Nothing happened then, it was too far away.
- Laurie: So, is there any reason we should be freaked out right now?
- Em: Well, I mean, it is a lot closer this time.
- Laurie: What does that mean?
- Em: Okay. I read one more thing...
- Lee: Oh, another story!
- Em: Just one more. It's called the Tunguska Event, and, um, it was a comet or a meteor or something like that, that entered the atmosphere over Siberia and exploded over Earth. So it didn't actually have physical impact. It didn't touch Earth, it didn't leave a crater or anything, but the force of that explosion flattened trees for hundreds of miles. But it only killed about one to two people.
- Laurie: It's Siberia. There were probably only two people there.
- Em: Yeah, but they don't necessarily...
- Mike: [jokingly] It wiped out the population of Siberia.
- Laurie: Basically, yeah.
- Em: Right.
- Laurie: Well, that doesn't make me feel better.
- Kevin: And when was this?
- Em: It was like, in 1908, 1903...
- [Suddenly they hear someone banging on the door and get startled]
- Hugh: These are Brian's notes from his lesson plan for his class. "Decoherence and Schroedinger's Cat."
- [first lines]
- Kevin: [on the phone] I felt like I had a lot of time.
- Em: I know. It's good. I'm good.
- Kevin: Yeah. We're, um... we're just getting off the freeway.
- Em: Yeah? Did, Hugh pick you up at the office, or...
- Kevin: Yes, he was coming in from Oakland. He was late, of course. Then I took him... And then, he took me to some lawyer bar.
- Em: A lawyer bar?
- Kevin: Yeah. A lawyer bar, kind of. Yeah. I don't know. Everybody there seemed like a lawyer. I felt like I was the only person without a tie.
- Em: Well, maybe we should get you a tie for emergencies.
- Kevin: Yeah, wardrobe emergencies.
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