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- Title
Is the Universe Unreal as per Quantum Mechanics?
- Authors
Vyasanakere, Jayanth
- Abstract
The announcement of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to A. Aspect, J. F. Clauser and A. Zeilinger, with the citation "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell's inequalities and pioneering quantum information science," has rekindled an old debate—is the universe real, or is it just our imagination? Social media is exploding with statements like quantum mechanics (QM) has proved that the "universe is not real", "reality is an illusion", "it is all our mind's projection", "objects exist only in our heads", "nothing exists out there", "conscious observer brings the world into existence", and so on... Anyone who has worked on quantum systems or has taught QM would find such statements superficial, misrepresenting QM and even the process of science. So, what QM advocates in connection to reality is critically examined here.
- Subjects
QUANTUM mechanics; BELL'S theorem; NOBEL Prize in Physics; QUANTUM information science; UNIVERSE
- Publication
Resonance: Journal of Science Education, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
0971-8044
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12045-023-1543-2