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Originally Posted by mswhin63
Hi Rod, I was wondering if you wanted to bring it up " Shrodingers Cat". Never heard of it till now, did a google search.
If you want an answer it is open for interpretation. Mine is "an observer is not an observer until the observer observe's"  
Don't know what it got to do with the thread but what the hell. |
Well how about that - you wrote "Never heard of it till now", then you wrote "an observer is not an observer until the observer observe's". Essentially you have nailed the essence of the issue, moreover, you have formed a rough base on which Relativity is built. By this I mean, that an observer is the origin of a relative viewpoint, and that unless a an observation is being made (seemingly with a level of intent), then there is no wave function collapse. Remember, quantum events happen within a relative framework, just like mass resides in spacetime and is therefore under the influence of gravitation, triggered by its own presence. Scary.
The relevance of this is simple; if a quantum computer relies on quantum effects, what interference will the observer have on the computations?!
The other issue is what is an observer? Perhaps an observer is simply a quantum field, a shared state or value, no different to the voltage of an electron or mass of a Tau. This is where we are now confronted by the issues of the observer just observing, or is it a conscious observation (not awareness as in human consciousness, that's different).
So if a tree falls in the forest...