{"id":161390,"date":"2023-04-01T00:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/great-mysteries-of-physics-4-does-objective-reality-exist"},"modified":"2023-04-01T00:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T05:22:17","slug":"great-mysteries-of-physics-4-does-objective-reality-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/great-mysteries-of-physics-4-does-objective-reality-exist","title":{"rendered":"Great Mysteries of Physics 4: does objective reality exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/great-mysteries-of-physics-4-does-objective-reality-exist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That means that these two people will say that the state of reality is different \u2013 they\u2019d have different facts about where the particle is.<\/p>\n<p>There are may other oddities about quantum mechanics, too. Particles can be entangled in a way that enables them to somehow share information instantaneously even if they\u2019re light years apart, for example. This challenges another common intution: that objects need a physical mediator to interact.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have therefore long debated how to interpret quantum mechanics. Is it a true and objective description of reality? If so, what happens to all the possible outcomes that we don\u2019t measure? The many worlds interpretation argues they do happen \u2013 but in parallel universes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That means that these two people will say that the state of reality is different \u2013 they\u2019d have different facts about where the particle is. There are may other oddities about quantum mechanics, too. Particles can be entangled in a way that enables them to somehow share information instantaneously even if they\u2019re light years apart, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}