2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future

O is for Observer Effect

The term observer effect generally refers to the possibility that an act of observation may affect the properties of what is observed. However, depending on the context and the mechanisms involved, it may indicate effects of a very different nature. ~ Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality

“There has been much controversy about what is meant by an observation causing a quantum entity to come into existence. The controversy is caused by ambiguity in the meaning of terms such as existence and reality. No one seems to know what they mean in the context of quantum mechanics, so I will explain what they mean. The correct interpretation is that when we say that quantum entities do not exist except when observed, we mean they do not exist as part of the human sensory world created by the human sensory apparatus, when an observation is made. The human sensory world is the world we know and live in, and is the world given to us by our sensory apparatus.

There is nothing to stop quantum entities existing in other worlds when being observed in the human sensory world and when not being observed in the human sensory world.

In addition all observations made by a human observer are personal to that observer, although other human observers will perceive something…