I continued playing with this idea last night, posted it on IG, hate the sight of it and then deleted it! But I think it’s worth hanging on to.
This is not the right image… maybe I need my own images rather than appropriated, or maybe it needs to be a different sort of photograph.
Something to keep thinking about… I don’t want to make illustrations. Inspired by thoughts about codified process of reality, variations and diversions, a move away from equilibrium, systems theory
And then (although I know some might wonder why I’m linking these two – maybe I’m wondering!…)
“There are no objective facts in the world. This isn’t a statement about fake news. Rather, it is the implication of an experiment that suggests the nature of reality depends on who is looking.
The work is rooted in thought experiments about the nature of quantum mechanics, but this is the first time one has been done in the lab, with potentially profound implications. “I am very excited about it,” says theorist Carlo Rovelli at Aix-Marseille University in France.
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In turn, it questions more mainstream views, such as the Copenhagen interpretation, which says that the properties of quantum systems don’t exist until observed, but then become objective facts, and the many worlds interpretation, which says that all possible measurement outcomes are real and objective, but each in a different world.
Renato Renner at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, who last year published a thought experiment along similar lines, thinks photons might not count as observers. “The validity of the conclusions depends on whether one can reasonably claim that their experiment mimics ‘observers’,” he says.
But Rovelli is thrilled. “I do take it as a great piece of evidence directly supporting the relational interpretation. I agree in full with the way they interpret it,” he says. “It is fantastic that ‘ideal experiments’ of the past become real experiments of today.” (Ananthaswamy, 2019)