there are various theories about the reduction of a wavefunction - Objective reduction is generally applied to the idea that it'll collapse once a criteria is met taht is independent of conscious perception. However it's difficult to prove this for rasons stated in this thread - u need electrons/photons to observe it and u don't know if the collapse is caused by your perception or the tools of perceiving (electorons/phtonos) there is another hypothesis that involves units of gravitons - and when a certain number of gravitons are part of the wavefunction then it collapses - the number has been estimated and it's very small (hence the reason u don't encounter multiple states of complex entities - these entities comprise too much gravity so it's automatically collapsed)
I remember reading a book by Roger Penrose (shadows of the mind and the Emperors new mind) - basically it is true that particles can affect eachother instantanously - u have 2 particles with complementary spins (becuase they are part of a quantum entaglement) - now once u observe (collapse) the wave function by observing one of them - the other conforms to a different spin value - this is an example of FTL cause and effect - HOWEVER - there was a proof (i forget it) that shows that u cannot COMMMUNICATE using this phenomenon. I wish i could explain it but i forgot it.
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there are various theories about the reduction of a wavefunction - Objective reduction is generally applied to the idea that it'll collapse once a criteria is met taht is independent of conscious perception. However it's difficult to prove this for rasons stated in this thread - u need electrons/photons to observe it and u don't know if the collapse is caused by your perception or the tools of perceiving (electorons/phtonos) there is another hypothesis that involves units of gravitons - and when a certain number of gravitons are part of the wavefunction then it collapses - the number has been estimated and it's very small (hence the reason u don't encounter multiple states of complex entities - these entities comprise too much gravity so it's automatically collapsed)
I remember reading a book by Roger Penrose (shadows of the mind and the Emperors new mind) - basically it is true that particles can affect eachother instantanously - u have 2 particles with complementary spins (becuase they are part of a quantum entaglement) - now once u observe (collapse) the wave function by observing one of them - the other conforms to a different spin value - this is an example of FTL cause and effect - HOWEVER - there was a proof (i forget it) that shows that u cannot COMMMUNICATE using this phenomenon. I wish i could explain it but i forgot it.
right - there is no such thing as absolute rigidity. I believe Einstein said something to this effect.