Title: 5 Thought-Provoking Quantum Experiments Showing That Reality Is an Illusion - Learning Mind
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5 Thought-Provoking Quantum Experiments Showing That Reality Is an Illusion
5 Most Notorious Quantum Experiments
1. Schrödinger’s cat
2. The diffraction of electrons
3. The heated fullerene
4. The cooling measurement
5. Freezing particles
Quantum mechanics and consciousness
Anna LeMind, B.A.
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Content: Granted, many physicists have learned to use its laws and even predict phenomena based on quantum calculations. But it is still unclear why the observer of an experiment determines the behavior of the system and causes it to favor one state over another. Here are some examples of quantum experiments with outcomes that will inevitably be influenced by the observer, which shows how quantum mechanics deals with the intervention of conscious thought in material reality. 5 Most Notorious Quantum Experiments
1. Schrödinger’s cat
Today, there are many interpretations of quantum mechanics with the Copenhagen interpretation being perhaps the most famous to-date. In the 1920s, its general postulates were formulated by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. The wave function has become the core term of the Copenhagen interpretation, it is a mathematical function containing information about all possible states of a quantum system in which it exists simultaneously. As stated by the Copenhagen interpretation, the state of the system and its position relative to other states can only be determined by an observation (the wave function is used only to help mathematically calculate the probability of the system being in one state or another). We can say that after observation, the quantum system becomes classical and immediately ceases to exist in other states, except for the state it has been observed in. This approach has always had its opponents (remember for example Albert Einstein’s “God does not play dice “), but the accuracy of the calculations and predictions prevailed.