So, what consciousness or “God” collapsed all the original particles making up the matter in the Universe created out of the so-called “Big Bang”? You would expect, therefore, most, if not all, quantum physicists to be ultra-religious - yet most are atheists. Seems somewhat hypocritical to me, unless, of course, there is a better classical explanation than the Copenhagen Interpretation.
I don’t know if I agree with it, but here’s a thought ...
“In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers turned up several billion years later. The universe exists because we are aware of it.”
Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist as well as Astronomer Royal of the Royal Observatory.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2015/05/todays-galaxy-insight-why-the-universe-exists.html