I can't name anything without doing some research into it, but I do remember some experiments in the '90s in which expectation affected subatomic particle spin direction. >50% of the time the particle would spin in the direction of the observer's expectation.
Damn, I should've gone into physics. Alicia On Sep 6, 2008, at 4:05 PM, delancey wrote: > > BTW, and as a question not relevant to this story since I don't care > if he stretched the interpretation: can anyone point me to any > evidence that something called "consciousness" is required to collapse > the wave? I always thought it was just decoherence and that arose > from any causal interaction. I don't know the source of this idea > that consciousness, rather than simple interaction, is required to > collapse the wave. > > cd > > On Sep 6, 2:40 pm, Alicia Henn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hmmm. I thought he did collapse it in the first experiment. Maybe it >> was only the other guys that did it. That changes everything. So he >> is >> one of the "soulless" ones that knew the outcome before it was even >> run. >> I think I need to go back and read this one a second time. Maybe the >> experiment will be different if I am more conscious of the outcome? >> >> Alicia >> On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> The way I read it, those that cannot collapse the wave -- and the >>> narrator discovers he's one of them -- are not fully consciously >>> human. They lack souls, for lack of a better word. They are not as >>> woven into the consciousness of the universe as others. They are >>> extraneous, on a cosmic scale. >>> Nan >> >>> In a message dated 9/6/2008 1:52:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> writes: >> >>> Yeah, I voted to nominate it for the Nebula ballot. I thought it >>> very >>> well done, with some clever ideas. I did have one very, very big >>> reservation, though. Why should I be suicidal about the twin >>> slit, or >>> because some people collapse the wave differently? I don't see it, >>> really. Seems bizarrely arbitrary -- like some Victorian being >>> suicidal because someone discovers space is curved. That'll likely >>> keep me from voting for it on the final ballot. >> >>> cd >> >>> On Sep 6, 12:07 pm, Alicia Henn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I just read a story that Nan Kress had recommended to me last week. >>>> I had been Greg Egan's biggest fan. >>>> Now I wanna grow up to be Ted Kosmatka. >>>> His story, "Divining Light" in the August Asimov's rocks electrons. >>>> Definitely worth buying a copy on the newstand if they're still >>> around. >> >>>> Alicia > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
