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Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Harte
I dont mind think what you will. I can only show you its up to you from then on in... You are not presenting a clear reason why you do not believe the theories of QM or shown me any alternatives...
In a study reported in the February 26 issue of Nature (Vol. 391, pp. 871-874), researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now conducted a highly controlled experiment demonstrating how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. The experiment revealed that the greater the amount of "watching," the greater the observer's influence on what actually takes place.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Harte
In a study reported in the February 26 issue of Nature (Vol. 391, pp. 871-874), researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now conducted a highly controlled experiment demonstrating how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. The experiment revealed that the greater the amount of "watching," the greater the observer's influence on what actually takes place.
www.sciencedaily.com...
These types of experiments as indicative to me that the observer can effect reality please tell me why I am wrong..
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Harte
Thank you for your replies...
We both agree that the observer effects reality then. I guess we could debate until we are long in the tooth to what degree and on what level this effect takes place. So I will stand by my statement that we do effect reality through our observation of the world.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Harte
Classic science as I am sure you know works on a subject / object view of the world. The object its perceived to exist by the subject. That perception is consciousness. So I still stand by statement..)
If for example you recorded it on a machine. All you are doing is moving the wave function to a different level. The machine is just like the cat in the box. Until it is observed the wave does not collapse. It is the same thing
Quantum systems exhibit particle- or wavelike behavior depending
on the experimental apparatus they are confronted by.
This wave-particle duality is at the heart of quantum mechanics.
Its paradoxical nature is best captured in the delayed-choice thought experiment,
in which a photon is forced to choose a behavior before the observer decides what to measure.
Here, we report on a quantum delayed-choice experiment in which
both particle and wave behaviors are investigated simultaneously.
The genuinely quantum nature of the photon’s behavior is certified via nonlocality,
which here replaces the delayed choice of the observer in the original experiment.
We observed strong nonlocal correlations,
which show that the photon must simultaneously behave both as a particle and as a wave.
Wave-particle complementarity is one of the most intriguing features of quantum physics.
To emphasize this measurement apparatus–dependent nature,
experiments have been performed in which the output beam splitter of a Mach-Zehnder
interferometer is inserted or removed after a photon has already entered the device.
A recent extension suggested using a quantum beam splitter at the interferometer’s output;
we achieve this using pairs of polarization-entangled photons.
One photon is tested in the interferometer and is detected, whereas the other allows us
to determine whether wave, particle, or intermediate behaviors have been observed.
Furthermore, this experiment allows us to continuously
morph the tested photon’s behavior from wavelike to particle-like,
which illustrates the inadequacy of a naive "wave or particle" description of light.
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How many people in this thread are aware that most of the people with scientific credentials who participated in the movie "what the bleep do we know" have criticized it, saying their words were taken out of context, and that they do not endorse the message portrayed in it?