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Originally Posted by fckm
See Schrodinger's Cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%F6dinger's_cat
The act of "observation" or "measurement" is not dependent on the presence of self-aware beings. Quantum wavefunctions must necessarily collapse into eigenstates as a result of the interactions between microscopic and macroscopic objects.
Thus, things exist and happen, even if people aren't around to watch it.
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You actually interpretted that wrong. Quantum theory says that everything exsists in wave form until it is observed and forced to become a particle. Schrodinger's cat is a layman's way of saying that.
The whole idea of Schrodinger's cat is that if you put a cat in a box with poison food and you close the box the cat is actually alive and dead at the same time until you open the box and observe if the cat is either alive or dead.
Schrodinger's equation shows the probability of something exsisting and where and when it can exsist. So with the story of the cat the cat can either be alive or dead and therefore according to Schrodinger's equation it is either 50% alive or 50% dead and until we open the box and force it to be a certain way it is alive and dead at the same time.
Quantum theory is all about the probability of where and when particles exsist.
Einstein and Schrodinger himself did not even believe this theory because Einstein refused to believe that "God plays dice" and Schrodinger didn't like the fact that things only exsist because we "force them to," and at any given time things have the probability to not exsist according to Schrodinger's equation.
So has anyone gone cross-eyed yet because of this?