More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics)

[Judi Lynn]

By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | March 20, 2019 07:00am ET

Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.

Researchers recently conducted experiments to answer a decades-old theoretical physics question about dueling realities. This tricky thought experiment proposed that two individuals observing the same photon could arrive at different conclusions about that photon's state — and yet both of their observations would be correct.

For the first time, scientists have replicated conditions described in the thought experiment. Their results, published Feb. 13 in the preprint journal arXiv, confirmed that even when observers described different states in the same photon, the two conflicting realities could both be true. [The Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]

"You can verify both of them," study co-author Martin Ringbauer, a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbrück in Austria, told Live Science.

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https://www.livescience.com/65029-dueling-reality-photons.html

[marylandblue]

1. Mind. Blown.

[rurallib]

2. things like this just show how much is left to learn about

It should be an exciting time coming up in science.

[Atticus]

3. So, Schrodinger's cat IS both dead AND alive. Some days, I feel that way. nt

[cstanleytech]

4. So if we all wish real hard we will end up in a universe where Clinton is President and

Trump and a number of varies Repugnants are serving decades in prison for their actions during the election?