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First off, I'm no scientist or physicist, I don't have a fancy degree, I'm a computer engineer with an absolute fascination with quantum physics and the unknown. I figured there must be some great minds here who can help me make sense of the theories I'm learning.
My understanding so far, is that, at the root of quantum physics, we have discovered that matter (atoms/subatomic particles) does not exist at a single point of space/time until observed. Not sure if I worded that correctly, but is this in fact true? Matter exists everywhere and anywhere simultaneously, until observed, at which point it comes into being once observed.
I've watched videos of scientists taking this theory into mind-bending other theories. Essentially stating that there is no matter at all, since it does not exist until observed, and that it is simply our perception through our brain's senses that makes something 'real'.
If nothing exists until we observe it, then what is reality? Furthermore, our reality is simply eletric signals interpretted by our brain, so even the things we think we observe may not actually exist.
Consider a dream. You can smell, taste, touch, hear, and see things in your dream, and at the time your brain considers these things real. Yet we wake up and realize these things weren't real at all. So how do we know what we observe is really there?
It just boggles my mind and maybe I'm trying to make sense of something that cannot be rationalized. But I find myself asking things like, nobody ever 'observes' my heart, its inside my body, yet it must be there, no? So I know that things must exist even though there is no observer, yet quantum physics is telling me that it doesn't exist.
Am I understanding all of this correctly or should I just stop thinking before my head explodes :)
My understanding so far, is that, at the root of quantum physics, we have discovered that matter (atoms/subatomic particles) does not exist at a single point of space/time until observed. Not sure if I worded that correctly, but is this in fact true? Matter exists everywhere and anywhere simultaneously, until observed, at which point it comes into being once observed.
I've watched videos of scientists taking this theory into mind-bending other theories. Essentially stating that there is no matter at all, since it does not exist until observed, and that it is simply our perception through our brain's senses that makes something 'real'.
If nothing exists until we observe it, then what is reality? Furthermore, our reality is simply eletric signals interpretted by our brain, so even the things we think we observe may not actually exist.
Consider a dream. You can smell, taste, touch, hear, and see things in your dream, and at the time your brain considers these things real. Yet we wake up and realize these things weren't real at all. So how do we know what we observe is really there?
It just boggles my mind and maybe I'm trying to make sense of something that cannot be rationalized. But I find myself asking things like, nobody ever 'observes' my heart, its inside my body, yet it must be there, no? So I know that things must exist even though there is no observer, yet quantum physics is telling me that it doesn't exist.
Am I understanding all of this correctly or should I just stop thinking before my head explodes :)