For me it is Cellular Automata, and more precisely the Game of Life.
Imagine a giant Excel spreadsheet where the cells are randomly chosen to be either “alive” or “dead”. Each cell then follows a handful of simple rules.
For example, if a cell is “alive” but has less than 2 “alive” neighbors it “dies” by under-population. If the cell is “alive” and has more than three “alive” neighbors it “dies” from over-population, etc.
Then you sit back and just watch things play out. It turns out that these basic rules at the individual level lead to incredibly complex behaviors at the community level when you zoom out.
It kinda, sorta, maybe resembles… life.
There is colonization, reproduction, evolution, and sometimes even space flight!
I see what you mean, but if this is possible, then I don’t see why not the entire universe as a whole near T≈0.
If you don’t see why it’s impossible, then you don’t understand it. You can’t just lump together all the “quantum” ideas because they sound cool.
Notice that the particles in your article were “super-chilled”. That’s the exact opposite of the early universe.
So you’re saying it’s absolutely, 100% impossible that the universe in its entirety was/is in superposition at any one point?