Quantum mechanics rule life; double slit confusion (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, December 15, 2019, 10:36 (1803 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "Even more enigmatically, does collapse ultimately need observation by a conscious human being? (To be clear, almost no physicist today thinks that this is the case.)

QUOTE: "…physics has yet to successfully explain the double-slit experiment. The case remains unsolved."

DAVID: And this is the basis of reality! We can't seem to out-think God. Worth reading it all.

Thank you for the all-important bold: this seems to put paid to the absurd notion that objective reality does not exist outside our observation of it. That does not, of course, alter the fact that our perception of reality is subjective. The double-slit experiment simply takes its place alongside the origin of life, of consciousness, of reproduction and of evolution as an “unsolved case”. Whether it really is the “basis of reality” I would hesitate to say. How can we know until the case is solved?