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mrnobody42
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Message 72 of 150 (691007)
02-18-2013 11:13 PM
Reply to: Message 43 by Straggler
02-05-2013 1:12 PM


Re: Dualism
How about these three just for starters.
Observer Created Reality: Do we create reality through consciousness? Some quantum mysticism indicates that a conscious observer creates or manifests an action. To investigate we need to define observation and see the use of it in applied quantum physics. In science there are four possible definitions of observation physical interaction, human experimental design, human passive observation, and human consciousness. In quantum experiments the first two are of great importance the third is almost irrelevant and the fourth most believe plays absolutely no role in quantum events. To gain a better understanding we will look at the uncertainty principle or quantum measurement problem.
Uncertainty Principle: There is wave-particle duality in quantum physics, this has been shown through quantum predictions and quantized in mathematics, it may seem strange but it is the only abstraction the human mind has been able to create in order to deal with the most fundamental levels of physical reality. This duality leads to a limit on the precision we can measure a quantum entity. Example if you want to know the location of an electron you need to fire a photon at the electron in order to pinpoint its location (the photon is the measuring tool in this case) what happens is when the photon interacts with the electron it effects its momentum (an interaction that would have occurred with or without a conscious observer), so now we know where the electron is but cannot know what momentum it was traveling at because we effected it's momentum. This is where observer created reality comes into play, we have in effect created or predetermined what would happen by the tools we used and the measurement taken.
So Observer created reality is simply the tools and the experiment we use will manifest certain realities, it is not really our consciousness that created what happened.
Quantum Decoherence: Another thing that really applies to this is the gap between macro and micro. What happens on the quantum level does not and will not happen on the large macro level, why you might ask? Because of the decoherence that happens because of randomization of the quantum system, you get to many random quantum entities together and they start to work in a system that is governed by classical physics, it becomes to complex to illicit the quantum coherence and quantum states that the simple and small scale quantum systems do. In other words scientific analysis can show what happens when interactions between wave-particles combine to produce thermodynamic irreversibility (entropywins!) and a decoherence of the mathematical wave-functions calculated in quantum mechanics.

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