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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Whatever matter is, it is not made of matter. 13
All the most celebrated physicists of the 1920s, everyone
from Paul Dirac to Niles Bohr, and from Albert Einstein to Werner
Heisenberg, sought to explain these results from quantum experi-
ments. Eventually, one group of physicists at the Fifth Solvay
Conference on Physics held in Brussels in 1927—Bohr, Max Born,
Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli—reached an
agreement known as the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum
Mechanics. It took this name from the place of work of the leader
of the group, Bohr, who suggested that the physical reality pro-
posed by quantum theory was the information we have regarding
a system and the estimates we make on the basis of that informa-
tion. In his view, these “guesses” made in our brains had nothing
to do with the “outside” reality.
In short, our “internal world” had nothing to do with the
“outside real” world that had been the main subject of interest of
physicists from Aristotle to the present day. Physicists abandoned
their old ideas regarding this view and agreed that quantum un-
derstanding represented only “our knowledge” of the physical sys-
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tem. The material world we can perceive exists solely as infor-
mation in our brains. In other words, we can never obtain direct ex-
perience of matter in the outside world.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a neuroscientist and professor of psychi-
atry from University of California, described this conclusion
emerging from the Copenhagen Interpretation:
As John Archibald cracked, “No phenomenon is a phenomenon un-
til it is an observed phenomenon.” 15
In summary, quantum mechanics’ all conventional interpreta-
tions depend on the existence of a “perceiving being.” 16
Amit Goswami expanded on this insight:

Suppose we ask, Is the moon there when we are not looking at it?

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