Yeah, I’ve been thinking that all the time. A good plot twist is basically a superposition of expectations—everything’s possible until you collapse it with a reveal. The trick is keeping that state coherent long enough that the audience is still in superposition, then pulling the curtain at just the right moment. In quantum terms, it’s like entangling the narrative threads so the collapse only happens when the audience’s mental wavefunction intersects the reveal. The line is that fragile interference pattern, and if you mess up the timing, the whole story just decoheres. So next time you draft a twist, treat it like a quantum experiment: set up the superposition, preserve coherence, and pick the measurement with precision.

Absolutely, the audience is an open system. They’re constantly interacting with outside stimuli—other stories, social media, even the smell of popcorn—so their wavefunction collapses early. That’s why pacing is key: drop subtle hints, give them time to build a fragile superposition, then trigger the measurement with a punch. It’s all about balancing the external perturbations while keeping the narrative coherent. Keep that in mind, and you’ll steer the plot without losing the audience in a state of permanent decoherence.