{"id":30686,"date":"2016-10-02T01:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T08:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/according-to-quantum-mechanics-reality-might-not-exist-without-an-observer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:24:32","slug":"according-to-quantum-mechanics-reality-might-not-exist-without-an-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/according-to-quantum-mechanics-reality-might-not-exist-without-an-observer","title":{"rendered":"According To Quantum Mechanics, Reality Might Not Exist Without An Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/according-to-quantum-mechanics-reality-might-not-exist-without-an-observer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a tree falls in the forest and there\u2019s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? The obvious answer is yes\u2014a tree falling makes a sound whether or not we hear it\u2014but certain experts in quantum mechanics argue that without an observer, all possible realities exist. That means that the tree both falls and doesn\u2019t fall, makes a sound and is silent, and all other possibilities therein. This was the crux of the debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. Learn more about it in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>Does reality exist when we\u2019re not watching?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/according-to-quantum-mechanics-reality-might-not-exist-without-an-observer-curiosity\/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=20161002fbk00CRSTquantum&utm_medium=social&utm_term=science&utm_content=link\">https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/according-to-quantum-mechanics-...ntent=link<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a tree falls in the forest and there\u2019s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? The obvious answer is yes\u2014a tree falling makes a sound whether or not we hear it\u2014but certain experts in quantum mechanics argue that without an observer, all possible realities exist. That means that the tree [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60207,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions\/60207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}