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4959101 No.4959101 [Reply] [Original]

Would the universe exist if there was nothing to observe it?

>> No.4959103

Shut up, Berkeley

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4959105

Yes.

>> No.4959109

Really because I thought a lot of quantum mechanics were reliant on being observed

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>>4959109
They aren't.

>> No.4959119

>>4959109
you thought wrong

>> No.4959148

>>4959109
Do you mean a human observation or the type of "observation" involved in QM that is entirely of a physical sense?

>> No.4959153

EPR. Bell inequality. etc.

>> No.4959160

>>4959109
It's because when you observe/measure something, you kind of "steal" information, so you screw everything up.
Yes, it is my interpretation, deal with it

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>>4959160

>> No.4959168

>>4959160
Elaborate on what it means to "steal" information.

It can be dangerous to adopt your own interpretations. It's imperative to physics that people do this, but it's also important to keep in mind that assholes like those that made What the Bleep Do We Know exist. And for that reason we have to be careful with interpretation.

>> No.4959172

>>4959168
For exemple, by looking at something, you absorb some photons. So i f you do a quantum experiment on photons, you should seal the whole thing to avoid the subject of the experiment to get away. That's the kind of stealing I'm talking about. Sorry if I'm using poor words to describe my thoughts