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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 18 2019, @09:01PM
I didn't find any support for alternative facts in the paper. You can tell this is an opinion injected by TNW because they bring up that crass misinterpretation of Schrodinger's cat. His point was that the Copenhagen interpretation is broken. TNW's description of it isn't compatible with any physics we know.
Superposition gets you different sets of facts, but decoherence forbids you from interacting with anyone or anything whose facts are different than yours — you are no longer causally connected to them (locally or otherwise) or the world they inhabit. This is true of every interpretation of quantum mechanics endorsed by physicists (except Bohmian mechanics, which basically turns superposition into an illusion) and even true of the broken Copenhagen interpretation.