Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Reflecting On "The Reality Tests"

“Do we create what we observe through the act of our observations?” (230)

What I got from this...actually I don't even know how to attack this question. Um I guess that we don't create through our observations because we aren't viewing things on the quantum level. In the article, quantum is defined as "energy as whole-number multiples of a basic unit". What we're viewing isn't on this level. We're viewing the creation of the quantum. Also, later on in the article, Zeilinger is quoted as saying, "...But to give up on realism altogether is certainly wrong. Going back to Einstein, to give up realism about the moon that's ridiculous. But on the quantum level we do have to give up realism." I think this supports my claim because he's saying that for the bigger picture, which we are viewing, realism holds true.

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