Creating a quantum entropy feedback device

According to one version of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics,
when a system collapses from an ordered to a more chaotic state (like an explosion), it causes the universe to 'split up' into many different versions of itself.
There are many more ways for a system to be chaotic than ordered, which also causes the 'arrow of time'.
During our early stage of the cosmos, less than fourteen billion years after the Big Bang, the universe is far more likely to split than to recombine.

In the following thought experiment, a highly ordered universe contains only one mind (or relatively few), waiting nervously for the bomb to go off.
The subsequent more chaotic universes contain many minds, each witnessing a slightly different version of the explosion.
According to the anthropic principle, a mind is more likely to exist in one of the chaotic universes, after the explosion, than in a universe where the bomb did not (yet) go off. Wherever there are more possibilities, there are more minds.

If true, this could become a powerful new tool, a step beyond anthropic computing and quantum immortality.
Suppose you want a certain event to happen, say a coin to come up tails multiple times. Simply decide in advance to detonate a 'quantum bomb' only if the desired outcome occurs, and then follow through.
The 'bomb' would be a high-energy, entropy-unleashing event.
(Thoughts or perceptions alone probably aren't powerful enough to manipulate probability. The brain uses just as much energy when it's thinking as when it's resting.)
Many more universes will 'split off', containing more observers, in which the chosen event happened to take place, creating the illusion that luck itself can be manipulated.

According to standard physics, the above procedure would never work. The math is complicated. Maybe the total number of parallel universes can't change. Infinite to begin with, they can only split into sub-sets.
Anthropic entropy may 'cancel out', because in some other universe, some other copy of yourself will always do the exact opposite thing.
If a quantum bomb was possible, biological evolution would have already exploited it. But what if the experts are wrong? No one really understands quantum physics yet.

A proposed experiment:
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Previous quantum experiments haven't detected any statistical anomalies, but perhaps their tools weren't powerful enough. The effect may only be noticeable during a very large energy release. A few hundred powerful hydrogen bombs could be simultaneously detonated on the far side of the moon, where their radiation wouldn't threaten Earth.
Each bomb would be programmed to have a 50% chance of detonating during a ten second interval, controlled by a Geiger counter. Those bombs that don't go off are later defused and destroyed. This experiment would link a complex macroscopic state to a single quantum transition.
It would be the largest possible quantum amplification event, except for a supernova or the Big Bang itself.
If the many-worlds interpretation is correct, and if the anthropic principle can be used to manipulate the apparent outcome of quantum splitting, more bombs would detonate than not. Perhaps all of them.
According to standard theories, only about 50% should go off.
If such an effect exists at all, it may be very small and hard to detect.

The next step would be to test if the detonations could manipulate the apparent outcome of a coin toss or a random number generator. Many trials may be needed to detect a statistical deviation. However, if the phenomenon is real, it could be self-amplifying.
A single quantum bomb could manipulate the outcome of many events.



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