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Hi folks,
i am happy to see people in this thread, who are engaged with quantum physics and ask themselves kind of philosophical questions, because i believe that this is the main drive for many of us to understand how the universe, and all within it, behaves.
To approach the main question of the thread we must combine the knowledge of all sciences. It really is quite naive to argue that there is no reality beside the measured one. In fact, if one is intensely thinking about it, there is no direct answer to this question. I can only deduce it from experiences in this so called reality.
The main conflict thinking about it is that physics is a science to explain incidents that are measurable. It is the same with quantum physics. But how do you know that something does not exist when you cannot measure it? If one is getting results concerning a certain experiment, it does not mean that there are no other influences. Imagine that gravity cannot be explained in detail. We only create formulas of what we experience. With a grand united theory these will be expanded and used in another way.
(Beside: What about different realities because of different outcomes of experiments? Think about the particle/wave conflict. I think it is blowing enough minds that beholding an experiment or not affects the result of it)
Actually one could equate the measurements with experiences of a conscious mind, because the measurements are only a tool to enhance the perception of the senses. Think of a child and its reality. Is is aware of quarks, atoms, molecules, their forces and interactions and so on? No...probably not ;) Does it exist? What if everything exists but we cannot measure it, what if it only exists because we built something that is able to measure it? We see that there are many aspects to consider concerning this kind of question.
i am happy to see people in this thread, who are engaged with quantum physics and ask themselves kind of philosophical questions, because i believe that this is the main drive for many of us to understand how the universe, and all within it, behaves.
To approach the main question of the thread we must combine the knowledge of all sciences. It really is quite naive to argue that there is no reality beside the measured one. In fact, if one is intensely thinking about it, there is no direct answer to this question. I can only deduce it from experiences in this so called reality.
The main conflict thinking about it is that physics is a science to explain incidents that are measurable. It is the same with quantum physics. But how do you know that something does not exist when you cannot measure it? If one is getting results concerning a certain experiment, it does not mean that there are no other influences. Imagine that gravity cannot be explained in detail. We only create formulas of what we experience. With a grand united theory these will be expanded and used in another way.
(Beside: What about different realities because of different outcomes of experiments? Think about the particle/wave conflict. I think it is blowing enough minds that beholding an experiment or not affects the result of it)
Actually one could equate the measurements with experiences of a conscious mind, because the measurements are only a tool to enhance the perception of the senses. Think of a child and its reality. Is is aware of quarks, atoms, molecules, their forces and interactions and so on? No...probably not ;) Does it exist? What if everything exists but we cannot measure it, what if it only exists because we built something that is able to measure it? We see that there are many aspects to consider concerning this kind of question.