--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "claudiouk" <claudiouk@> wrote:". . . amazing how the mere act of > observation can alter outcomes in quantum experiments." > > Hmmm, I'm thinking that "observation" as defined in today's physics is > actually not such. It's not witnessing that changes the observed, > it's the throwing of objects at the observed that skew measurements of > it. That's interfering physically -- not merely absorbing quanta > radiating off the object. <snip>
This is an interesting point -- for me, observing is not passive absorption, but actually *does* entail an active emanation from within to enliven the object(s) perceived. I hadn't considered the quantum analogies to this before; many thanks.
