You, reading this, are in the branch where the coin landed kindly. According to one of the strangest ideas in modern physics, you may be in that branch every time, again and again, for as long as you live. This is the thought experiment known as quantum immortality.
History is littered with the ghosts of empires that fell and vanished entirely. Babylon is a set of quiet ruins; the Western Roman Empire exists only in textbooks; the ancient Hittites and Assyrians were ultimately swallowed by time.
Most people look for foreign influence at the federal border, but on July 30, a paper trail inside the Texas State Capitol proved the real beachhead might be in the state’s banking system.
