Re: we were from the stars...


msaesxh wrote:
> I wish I could remember what this had to do with and exactly how to
> state it, but I do believe it's quantum physics. A kid I work with was
> telling me about how he was studying something to do with like I said I
> beleive qauntum physics, where for evey single decision you can make,
> there are an infinite number of universes with an infinte number of
> decisions. I wish I could say it better, but draw your own conclusions,
> it freaked me out.

Unless there is an observer to observe an event the event itslef is a
probability wave function with an infinate number of possible outcomes.
As soon as the observer looks at the event the wave function colapses
and the event becomes a point or particle. The observer in essence
chooses the outcome since without the observer there is no outcome to
the event. It all comes back to the classic "If a tree falls in the
woods".

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