You And The Universe: A Tale Of Complex Simplicity
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New Scientist recently released a list of seven questions that keep physicists up at night.
I’m not a physicist, but one of these questions had me thinking late at night.
What is reality, really?
Pretty heavy, huh?
The magazine asked Anton Zeilinger, professor of physics at the University of Vienna, and it appears that they answer is that reality–all that you see around you (and a lot more)–is far more complex and far simpler than you can imagine.
We’re just scratching the surface.
Zeilinger, whose primary focus is quantum experiments that demonstrate the apparent influence of observers in the shaping of reality, said the key to understanding reality is comprehending that it’s not separate from us.
As he said:
“Maybe the real breakthrough will come when we start to realize the connections between reality, knowledge and our actions.”
Zeilinger’s own experiments prove that particles that are separated by (comparatively) vast distances are linked. And, remarkably, when you observe one, you instantly affect the other.
“No one has yet fathomed how the universe seems to know when it is being watched.”
The answer is simple when you think that maybe the watcher and the watched are actually one.
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