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And like, I get it. The show isn't airing in the late 2300s, it's airing now, and being watched by people in 2024, so adopting cultural idioms that are familiar to real-world viewers in 2024 isn't a bad thing. It's part of how you write good and accessible dialogue.

After all, time travel episodes that go back to the 1200s don't generally use middle English.

But positive references to Schrödinger and treating "quantum" as exotic break immersion for me.