Just remember that in quantum physics, any interaction between two particles is a measurement.
Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
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#132> "At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it"
So much physics reporting mistakes science for philosophy. It leads to so much confusion among laypeople.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Maybe this is really just a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about motion of particles or information transfer in the universe." Check out this TED talk on just that subject. http://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as... Here's the punch line, space, time and matter are components of a user interface produced through evolution. We don't take the desktop and icons of our computer UI literall…
Is thought part of this UI as well?
It's more like the model in a Model-View-Controller UI.
The philosophical question would be "what is the controller?"
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#134Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#135Best headline ever.
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#136> Reality is a computer program
I'd like to issue a pull request..
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#137If I'm standing here, all the stuff that the atoms in my body could conceivably interact with have to be backfilled for me to interact with them according to this experiment, but since I'm not special to the universe, atoms three billion light years over, they are still interacting with each other, just not with me. So am I decohered to them? Is this like a divergent timelines theory such that coherence is defined as…
The philosophical interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is a very hard, unsolved problem. There are many reasons why quantum mechanics is theoretically good and philosophically terrible, and not just in a subtle, esoteric way. The reason is that in Quantum Mechanics there are 2 main types of entities: particles, "things" that evolve according to the Schrodinger equation, and "observers". Observers are what deliver to u…
> Observers are what deliver to us the results of randomly sampling from the probability distribution defined by the squared amplitude of the wave function by "collapsing" it, according to the Copenhagen interpretation. However, there is no particle that acts as an observer, they all just follow the Schrodinger equation, but nothing that exists isn't a particle.
This is why proponents of the Many-Worlds Interpretation claim that Occam's razor favours it: you don't need to posit "observers" or "collapses"; there's just the evolution of the wave function.
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#138So, the Sun doesn't exist when experimenter is unconscious? I see.
It seems like at least Philosophy 101 should be mandatory to quantum physicists.)
Reality doesn't depend on an observer (who distorts it by his observation). Reality just is.
There are light and other temporary states of what we call "energy". That's it. Time, space, relativity are human concepts - the hard-wired modes of perception which conditions our experience. From a Photon's perspective none of these exist.
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#139And perhaps someday we'll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like "oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to lo…
The equivalent of a memory leak being spooky action at a distance?