Page 33 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

To the extent that the moon is ultimately a quantum object (being
composed entirely of quantum objects), we must say no—so says
physicist David Mermin. . . .

Perhaps the most important, and the most insidious, assumption
that we absorb in our childhoods is that of the material world of ob-
jects existing out there—independent of subjects, who are the ob-
servers. There is circumstantial evidence in favor of such an as-
sumption. Whenever we look at the moon, for example, we find the
moon where we expect it along its classically calculated trajectory.
Naturally we project that the moon is always there in space-time,
even when we are not looking. Quantum physics says no. When we
are not looking, the moon’s possibility wave spreads, albeit by a mi-
nuscule amount. When we look, the wave collapses instantly; thus
the wave could not be in space-time. It makes more sense to adapt
an idealist metaphysic assumption: There is no object in space-time
without a conscious subject looking at it. 17

According to quantum physics,
the existence of matter is depen-
dent on the existence of a
“perceiver.” For example,
when we are looking at
the Moon, the possi-
bility wave of the
body we per-
ceive as the
Moon
col-
lapses
and the
wave no
longer exists
in space-time.
According to quan-
tum physics, the
Moon is not in the sky
so long as there is no
observer!

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