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Physics Experiment Challenges Objective Reality

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I'm fascinated by recent news of exciting results from a quantum physics experiment that according to the MIT Technology Review appears to provide evidence that two people can observe the exact same event, see two different things happen, and both be correct.
Observers Witness the Same Event Differently
Physicists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh succeeded in bringing a classic Gedankenexperiment (thought experiment) out of the realm of pure conjecture and into the real, physical world of a physics laboratory. The thought experiment requires two people to observe one single photon--which is a quantum, or indivisible, unit of light. Quantum particles can behave as either particles, or as waves, settling into one state or the other (particle or wave) at the precise moment it is observed. All the rest of the time when the particle is not being observed by someone, it exists in a 'superposition of states' in which it can be considered to be simultaneously both 'particle' and 'wave.' When a second person is unaware of the first person's observational measurement, this thought experiment proposes that the second person who is unaware of the first person's measurement might be able to to confirm that the photon still exists in a quantum superposition (undecided) state.
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