Walter and Y'all:
Uh oh, the artsy farty Humanities guy is trying to talk physics!
I'm a little reluctant to voice an opinion on this topic because there
are quite a few people who share of vision of the MOQ that is very
different than my understanding. I don't like the idea of stepping on
anyone's toes, but to be perfectly frank, I think they only share a
common misconception.
I can't believe that atoms or particles or waves only exist when humans
look at them. I don't think that our perceptions create reality or that
reality is an abstaction of experience. Rather experience is fundamental
to the nature of reality and has, through the course of evolution,
created humans and their perceptions. Subjects and objects don't pop
into existence magically because of our experience. I think that view is
just some kind of fancy Solipsism. Its impossibly wierd.
What I think that what goes on in the cases of our observations in
sub-atomic physics is a matter of "disturbing the universe". The
potential particles and waves, prior to our interuption, exist as an
"electron cloud". The "parts" of the atom are niether here nor there.
The are not yet fully differentiated. They exist at the cusp between
chaos (primordial DQ) and inorganic matter. And that existence does not
depend on our observing it. Rather it is the "that its attributes are
created or realized in the act of measurement". Those attributes, those
particles and waves, are created by our observations, which have a way
forceing the potential to be realized. WE push the atom to make a
"choice" about which way to go.
But I could be wrong. In fact, its pretty likely. David B.
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