If one chooses to believe that the atom really did take a particular path or paths then one has to accept that a future measurement is affecting the atom's past...
The past affects the future (obviously) and the future affects the past. Too bizarre.
To: LibWhacker
“Time is an illusion.” - Albert Einstein:
2 posted on
05/28/2015 6:04:26 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
To: LibWhacker
At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at itShades of Bishop Berkeley.
To: LibWhacker
"... proving that reality does not exist until it is measured."
What is "proving", then? Can it be measured?
And what is "measuring" if reality does not exist?
5 posted on
05/28/2015 6:15:26 PM PDT by
Diamond
(He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
To: LibWhacker
So cause and effect and the forward motion of time breaks down at the quantum level?
Sounds like dangerous place.
7 posted on
05/28/2015 6:18:37 PM PDT by
The Cajun
(Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
To: LibWhacker
reality does not exist until it is measured The effect of a bill before Congress cannot be known until it is passed. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party quantum genius
9 posted on
05/28/2015 6:20:08 PM PDT by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: LibWhacker
To: LibWhacker
I’m sure that I’m not the first to point out that there is nothing weird about quantum level physics as long as you understand quantum behavior. Of course, as Dr. Feynman pointed out, nobody actually does.
To: LibWhacker
ah - a thought experiment....
To: LibWhacker
This stuff doesn’t map well to the English language. Basically something for which we have only a mathematical description behaves in a manner for which we have only a mathematical description. The result is now to be expressed in non-mathematical terms. Best of luck with that.
“...reality does not exist if you are not looking at it...”
Ah ha! Mrs. Clinton’s popularity explained finally!
21 posted on
05/28/2015 6:46:59 PM PDT by
SuzyQue
To: LibWhacker
The past affects the future (obviously) and the future affects the past. Too bizarre.
...
Consider this. When you look at a star that is a 1000 light years away, there is a light wave that travels backwards in time to the star, 1000 years in the past, long before you were born, and enables the light wave that travels 1000 years into the future to hit your eye.
http://mist.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/tiqm/TI_toc.html
24 posted on
05/28/2015 6:56:29 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: LibWhacker
The answer is neither and both.
25 posted on
05/28/2015 6:58:24 PM PDT by
WriteOn
(Truth)
To: LibWhacker
QM in a nutshell...
“This statement is false.”
29 posted on
05/28/2015 7:19:37 PM PDT by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: LibWhacker
Or, for more fun.... entanglement...
“The next statement is true.”
“The previous statement is false.”
30 posted on
05/28/2015 7:20:32 PM PDT by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: LibWhacker
Once again, I call B.S.
Not at you, LibWhacker, at the “science”.
35 posted on
05/28/2015 7:54:29 PM PDT by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: LibWhacker
42 posted on
05/28/2015 8:43:12 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: LibWhacker
Children understand this, if moms not looking, it either didn’t happen, or “Not Me” did it...
48 posted on
05/30/2015 6:59:01 PM PDT by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: LibWhacker
"At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it" Um, no, it exists as potential wave and particle. Measuring interrupts the particle's interactions with the zero point field, causing a favoring of one or the other (particle or wave form) based upon the imbalance of wave form impacts with the zp field dictated by the measuring parameters.
50 posted on
06/01/2015 8:32:39 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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