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To: hinckley buzzard
reality does not exist if you are not looking at it

I wouldn't get too excited about it, because as a statement of what quantum mechanics actually says, it is not, in fact, true.

The correct interpretation is: "The reality of an outcome is contingent on what you choose to observe."

That is not a terribly earth-shattering ontological principle.

15 posted on 05/28/2015 6:35:14 PM PDT by FredZarguna (We are vain and we are blind/I hate people when they're not polite.)
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To: FredZarguna

I agree with you, Fred. Quantum Reality is quite mundane if viewed through the point of view of the very small. It’s onl when we try to apply our macro object experience to the quantum world that it seems so strange.

Light is neither particle nor wave.


51 posted on 06/01/2015 5:06:02 PM PDT by samtheman
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