Tag: Observer Problem
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Essay 2 — What is The Observer?
The structure of experience and the question physics left open The problem is no longer how the world is observed. The problem is what is doing the observing. Essay 1 arrived at a precise boundary. Quantum mechanics — the most empirically successful theory in the history of science — cannot be formulated without reference to…
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Essay 1 — The Observer Problem
What quantum mechanics uncovered — and could not explain In 1801, Thomas Young darkened a room, positioned a card with two narrow slits cut into it, and allowed a beam of light to pass through. What appeared on the screen behind it was not two bands of light — the result a common-sense particle theory…