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Originally Posted by OzMan
I also come from a physics background and have a longtime interest in things metaphysical...
I had read this previously in a metaphysical book from the 1920's and many other places in the form of a "think positive" kind of attitude, but it is now apparently a scientific fact as scientists observe the smallest sub-quarks, pions, muons or whatever the hell they are currently called, the behaviour of the particles will actually be affected by the observation of them.
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I think they call that the Heisenberg Principle:
"You may not touch (or verify, or measure, or gain any insight whatsoever) without TRANSFORMING that which you touch."
The implication of Heisenberg to String Theory is rather startling.
If we accept Heisenberg as absolute, then NO perception is EVER pure or objective.
This has the interesting, and dual, consequence of suggesting (i) that ALL OF PHYSICS has ALWAYS been flawed, for never building on TRUE OBSERVATION, and (ii) that a method of INDIRECT CONTACT with phenomena might be the ONLY way to REALLY SEE them.
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