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Meta-reality As the Israeli
physicist Yakir Aharonovand the US philosopher David Alberthave pointed out ("Can we make sense out of the measurement
process in relativistic quantum mechanics?", 1981), the measurement
process of Quantum Theory seems to defy Relativity. Not only does
the "collapse" of the quantum wave create reality as we know it, but
it does so instantaneously. Any instantaneous phenomenon contradicts
Relativity: according to the principle of Relativity, what is instantaneous for
me may not be for you if you are in motion relative to me. This collapse, that
is routinely observed in millions of experiments around the world, is
empirically real but it is not quite an event: it is not located anywhere in
spacetime. It seems to imply the existence of a realm that is
"sub-empirical", that provides the foundations for the empirical
reality that we observe. Back to the beginning of the chapter "The New Physics" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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