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Objective Reality May Not Exist at All, Quantum Physicists Say
- dane-pgp 4y agoThat's just like, your opinion, man.
- goatsneez 4y agoDido. I view this in analogy to the early scholars explaining planetary dynamics from earth centrist view. It is possible to solve the differential equations in that frame of reference, however, it is rather difficult, and the results are non-intuitive when trying to build a theory of heavenly motions in that frame. Changing reference frame to Sun-centric, it seems to be easier in modeling and explanation. (But physics tells us that it is non-unique view, we just adopt it since it is most convenient and intuitive for things we need from the theory). I take similar stance to the Quantum physics... while successful as a model, it certainly says nothing about uniqueness of that model (hence its interpretation on the philosophical plane bears little significance to the ordinary life).
- dtagames 4y agoThe "if a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it" analogy that opens the article is quite on-point. Since sound is a human concept that only happens in our brains (or other brains that might act the same way), a tree most definitely does not make a sound unless someone is there to hear it. (It makes silent air pressure waves.) In the same way, any "objective" reality that underlies quantum physics is not really perceptible by the human organism. We cannot perceive the behavior of individual electrons or other subatomic particles without measuring tools and, as Niels Bohr showed, those tools are only "showing" what they measure. They aren't showing the full, underlying reality.