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More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) (livescience.com)
Zorro (Slashdot reader #15,797) quotes Live Science:
Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can -- at the quantum level, that is.
Researchers recently conducted experiments to answer a decades-old theoretical physics question about dueling realities. This tricky thought experiment proposed that two individuals observing the same photon could arrive at different conclusions about that photon's state -- and yet both of their observations would be correct.
For the first time, scientists have replicated conditions described in the thought experiment. Their results, published Feb. 13 in the preprint journal arXiv, confirmed that even when observers described different states in the same photon, the two conflicting realities could both be true. "You can verify both of them," study co-author Martin Ringbauer, a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Live Science.
Researchers recently conducted experiments to answer a decades-old theoretical physics question about dueling realities. This tricky thought experiment proposed that two individuals observing the same photon could arrive at different conclusions about that photon's state -- and yet both of their observations would be correct.
For the first time, scientists have replicated conditions described in the thought experiment. Their results, published Feb. 13 in the preprint journal arXiv, confirmed that even when observers described different states in the same photon, the two conflicting realities could both be true. "You can verify both of them," study co-author Martin Ringbauer, a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Live Science.
...we knew it for long time
More than one reality In Donald Trump's head.
The current realities are in flux - can you be more specific here?
Is he still "literally Hitler", or has that reality been discarded?
How about "is going to rot in federal jail, along with his family"? Will that reality happen any time soon?
I think the "anti-semite" reality was dealt a death blow by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, but if that didn't kill it the Golan Heights thing surely did.
Or is he still an anti-semite after all that?
The "racism" reality is still going strong, despite having done more for minorities than any other president in living memory (by reforming the sentencing guidelines). Also, illegal immigration disproportionately hurts minorities, and minority unemployment is the lowest it's ever been.
Is he still racist after all that?
Which realities are you referring to, that appear in Trump's head?
We're all dying to know what you think!
But I guess they have never heard of KISS.
The problem is that Quantum Physics already uses the KISS method -- it's just that universe behaves strangely enough that this is the simplest theory they can (currently) come up with that hasn't been already falsified by measured results. Plenty of beautiful, simpler theories (Newtonian mechanics, aether, etc) have already been tried and found wanting.
Correlary: if/when they ever do figure out How The Universe Really Works, it will probably be even weirder and more counterintuitive than their current theories. Buckle up!
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
... to ink this one in.
Recall the twin paradox and the loss of simultaneity with Special Relativity. The phenomenon are both "apparent," and "true," depending on the frame of reference.
It took years for that to be accepted and to morph into intuition.
Quantum mechanics is in its infancy and it will be 30-40 years before we get to the same comfortable place.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.