The Universe Damaged By Observation?

ScentCone writes "The Telegraph covers a New Scientist report about two US cosmologists who suggest that, a la Schrodinger's possibly unhappy cat, the act of observing certain facets of our universe may have shortened its life . From the article: 'Prof Krauss says that the measurement of the light from supernovae in 1998, which provided evidence of dark energy, may have reset the decay of the void to zero — back to a point when the likelihood of its surviving was falling rapidly.'"

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please tag as "stupid"

[cathector]

as subject!

WTF???

[geekoid]

Will you stop spreading nonsense? it only give the illusion of power to psuedoscience crap sellers.

"To observe something, it must be interacted with. "
Incorrect.

Starlight is observed, but I do not interact with the star at all.

"The most common form of interaction involves a photon bouncing off of something,"
That photon is not part of what you are seeing, it is light 'bounced' from the object, NOT the object. No more then sound is the object.

"This involves a small energy transfer and/or a series of reactions between the "thing" used for observation and the observee. "
OMG, stop this person from breeding. There is no place on the world you could leave and not raise the average IQ.

There is no energy transfer, AT FUCKING ALL!

You are saying that photon are created when someone looks at something. Can't you see what non sense this is? You are also implying that this magic energy transfer happen backwards through time. I doubt you are smart enough to realize that.

"This is why observation causes a solidification of state, and/or change."
No it doesn't, not at all. What has happened is some stupid people took a quote out of context, and then applied what they thought it must mean to it.

I don't know who is more ignorant, you, or the people who modded you insightful.

As a side note I feel I shoud remind you that energy can not be destroyed or created. I get the feeling you missed that as well.