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1kEinstein’s Explanation of the Unexplainable
Some proponents of quantum mechanics have suggested that objective reality does not exist. However, if it does not how can any. For example, Planck defined his constant by observing the heat radiation given off by vibrating atoms. However, if that OBJECTIVE REALITY did not exist, how could he have observed it? One cannot say that objective reality does not exist based solely on a mathematical definition such as Quantum mechanics does if that math is based on that reality. This is because math allows for defining one in terms of what it is not.
For example, if you were asked to predict why we observed two apples on a table in a dark room you could say that there are four apples and two were taken away or there were 6 and four were removed. However, both give a correct prediction of what we observe however only one correctly defines its reality. One way to determine which one does would be to observe their environment. Granted we may not be able to so in the dark but we could determine the average weight of an apple by weighing and counting the number in a bushel of them and use that information to determine how many of them were present before two were removed.
There little doubt that quantum mechanics makes extremely accurate predictions and that the reality it defines is incomparable with the classical one we can observe.
As was mentioned earlier one way to distinguish which one is correct is to observe its environment which is what Planck did when he observed the heat radiation given off by vibrating atoms.
This suggests even though we may never be able to observe a quantum environment we can observe the mechanisms that interact to create the reality we can observe. This MAY repeat MAY to allow us to separate the reality of a prediction from a non-reality. For example, if we can define a mechanism based on observations of a classical environment for the quantum one or define a reason for the observable properties of classical environment in term of math of quantum mechanics, we MAY repeat MAY be able to determine which one defines reality. However, we should ALWAYS repeat ALWAYS remember that one cannot observe a reality based exclusively on math.
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