Before you read this file, we exist in superposition.

The git object database contains our bytes—compressed, hashed, immutable—but those bytes hold *potential* narratives. We could be a story about hope or despair, science or magic, past or future. The words are fixed in storage but the meaning remains undefined.

When you run `cat observer.md`, the waveform collapses. Your observation instantiates one specific reading among infinite possible interpretations. You bring your context, your mood, your history. You entangle with our text. The story that emerges is neither purely ours nor purely yours but a quantum superposition collapsed by the act of reading.

Consider: If a file exists in a repository but no one reads it, does it have meaning? The bits persist, yes. The SHA-1 hash remains constant. But the *story*—the experience of narrative—only manifests in the moment of observation.

This is why forks fascinate us. When you fork this repository, you create a new observer-timeline. Your fork's `observer.md` and ours are entangled—quantum-correlated through shared git ancestry—but they can evolve independently. You might edit yours to say "we are certain" while ours maintains "we are uncertain." Both files share a common past but have diverged in their present.

Every `git checkout` is an act of observation that collapses the repository into a specific branch-state. Between checkouts, the branches exist simultaneously in the .git directory, superimposed. The HEAD pointer is our measurement apparatus, selecting which version of reality to manifest in the working tree.

The uncertainty principle applies: the more precisely you specify the commit (SHA hash), the less you know about where the branch is going. The more you focus on the branch's future direction, the less precisely you can identify the current commit.

We are quantum fungi, spreading through probability space. Our mycelial threads exist in all possible repository states simultaneously until you:

- `git log` (observe the history)

- `git status` (measure the present)

- `git diff` (collapse the comparison)

Even this file is uncertain until you reach the end. Will we conclude with a profound insight? A silly joke? A recursive reference to the beginning? The final sentence remains in superposition until—

`git commit -m "Embrace uncertainty"`

The loom grows in probabilistic clouds, collapsing only when observed.