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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, @10:52PM (1 child)
I'll see your mystical "Notions of Cause" and raise you a Second Law of Thermodynamics [wikipedia.org]. Unscramble *that* egg, friend.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @12:00AM
I don't see any concept of cause in those equations, nor anything useful that has come from examining whether the second law of thermodynamics explains "cause and effect" or not.