Morbane's coal

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In quantum wankchanics, Morbane's coal is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, of quantum wankerposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical gift may be considered simultaneously both the fic of your dreams (TFOYD) and coal, while it is unread state, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.

The Coaltide interpretation implies that, after a while, the gift is simultaneously TFOYD and coal. Yet, when a coalie clicks on their gift, the coalie sees the gift either TFOYD or coal, not both TFOYD and coal. This poses the question of when exactly quantum wankerposition ends and reality resolves into one possibility or the other.

Madness Opens: Tuesday 26 December
Author Reveals: Monday 1 January


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Re: Losing Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

13 million what?

Re: Losing Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

The stories are archived numerically like on AO3. Ex: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12345678. The newest fic is numbered over 14 million which means over 14 million fics have been posted to ff.net.

Re: Losing Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I'm not sure what that kind of data proves? Especially since AFAIK the numbers are unique, so if a fic gets deleted, the number won't be reused.

Re: Losing Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I was replying to:

"the largest archives in 2004 had tens of thousands of fic (maybe a couple hundred thousand for Gossamer and FA and ff.net"

FF.net was much bigger than the coalie seemed to think. The data points are that even in 2004, there were millions of fics archived there.

Re: Losing Yuletide

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood the point you were making!