[dp0622]

Aren’t there some physics folks (maybe very few) who think that viewing decides the outcome?

I don’t know if i even put that right.

I think it’s related to Biocentrism.

Thanks for the reply, btw.

[Svartalfiar]

Aren’t there some physics folks (maybe very few) who think that viewing decides the outcome?

I don’t know if i even put that right.

Schroedinger's cat is a bad example - the cat is certainly alive or dead, you just don't know which until you look in the box. Viewing it doesn't cause it to be one or the other, it simply sees what the fact is.

Looking at tiny objects, though, is different. You use photons or electrons to see things. But how do you take a picture of what actually makes the picture? You can't use an electron microscope to view/measure an electron, because that very act has a large influence on the object being pictured / measured. Getting into quantum measurement is an even deeper issue of that same problem, since we don't really have the tools to easily take the measurements in the first place.