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Would you let a quantum mechanic work on your car?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) April 9th, 2013

You may already know all about the double-slit experiment and the enhanced version of it that showed that it is not the act of measuring the spin of a particle that collapses its wave of possibilities, the collapse actually occurs only when a sentient being can know what the measurement reveals. So long as there is no one watching, and no recording is made of the measurement, no collapse occurs. Record it so that we can, at some point know what happened, and the waveform collapses. Waveform collapse is not a function of interaction between a quantum particle and a measuring device, it is an interaction between the quantum particle and sentience!

If you weren’t already up on that, then here’s a 52 minute video discussing just how utterly weird and mind boggling things are at the quantum level.

So would you let a quantum mechanic work on your car? Do you have any option?

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