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To: LibWhacker
At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it

Shades of Bishop Berkeley.

3 posted on 05/28/2015 6:06:17 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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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: hinckley buzzard

If a man speaks in the forest, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?


34 posted on 05/28/2015 7:50:22 PM PDT by InMemoriam (Scrape the bottom! Vote for Rodham!)
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