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What possible, fundamental, misunderstanding of the nature of the universe could make current academics look like flat earthers? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I came here to say this.

Modern physics already gives special status to observer objects and properties that “non-observer” objects don’t have, and every universe needs to be defined from some particular point of view instead of “objectively” from outside. There are a couple other weird things but those are two big ones to me.

And so a physicist from the 2100s where physics is defined in relation to consciousness asks a modern physicist, so why did you think it was all just atoms and numbers in an “objective” universe?

And the modern physicist says what the fuck are you talking about don’t get all weird and religious on me

And the future physicist says okay dude good luck then

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

You're fundamentally misunderstanding the concept of an "observer" - it's not a conscious entity literally observing something. It's simply an object whose state depends on the quantum particle in question.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Why does the detector in the double slit experiment cause an interference pattern if its state depends on which slit the particle went through, but then it resets its internal state after, without transmitting the result?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There's apparently a answer to this I've been told by physicists, but I've never quite understood it lol.

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