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Study: There may be no such thing as objective reality
Everyone is entitled to their own facts. That's not an opinion. At least, according to a new quantum mechanics study.
What we view as objective reality – the idea that what we can observe, measure, and prove is real and those things we cannot are theoretical or imaginary – is actually a subjective reality that we either unravel, create, or dis-obfuscate by the simple act of observation.
A smarter way of putting it can be found in the aforementioned study, "Experimental test of nonlocal causality" conducted by lead author Martin Ringbauer and an international team of physicists and researchers:
Explaining observations in terms of causes and effects is central to empirical science. However, correlations between entangled quantum particles seem to defy such an explanation. This implies that some of the fundamental assumptions of causal explanations have to give way.
Also at The Conversation
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @07:38PM
Exactly true. As a case-in-point, consider the Higgs-Boson. Just because some scientists out of frustration called it "the Goddam particle," which got censored to "the God particle," you had all these reports and pop-culture references about finding spirituality in the search for it.
Poe's Law, only applied to real life I guess.
As a side note, as I'm already responding, this article does not pass the "sniff" test, at least to me. It smacks of the Romantic-era "everything in subjective." I'll admit many things are subjective, but it's hard to imagine that EVERYTHING is subjective. If somebody really says that, I'd be more than happy to wager with them that the sun will rise tomorrow... they can even set the odds.