Hello! This is Cynthia Sue Larson with realityshifters.com and today I'd love
to talk with you about some exciting developments in the realm of physics
having to do with experiments that predict that observers will witness
different histories. This may sound ridiculous, and it is concerning to a
number of physicists, who are discussing it right now. I like the work that
I've described previously in papers that I've written that's been done by
Matthew Leifer and Roberts Spekkens. It was summarized in a recent article for
Scientific American and Nature, published by Davide Castelvecchi. And in this
article, there is a picture that I'll show you quickly; it basically shows if
you can see it, these different observers. These are basically cats based on Erwin
Schrödinger's cat experiment. And let's start there. I'm going to go through three
quick steps in this short video, to explain why this whole development
is such a big news item in the world of physics, and for those of us interested
in reality shifts and the Mandela Effect. So let's go! The first part to review:
Step One, is a quick review of Erwin Schrodinger's cat, and what's going on
with that. This was the experiment that Erwin originally came up with to show how
ludicrous it was that something as big as a cat could possibly be in a state of
being alive and dead at the same time. And the way he got to that demonstration
was by putting this hypothetical cat--no actual cats were ever harmed as far as I
know--inside of a box, with a mechanism, where a little vial of poison would be
released--possibly--if the trigger device, which was hooked up to some radioactive
decay element--an element that would randomly radioactively decay. And when it
did, it would trigger the little hammer, that strikes the vial, that releases the
poison, that kills the cat. And here's the thing: the observer does not know whether
the cat is alive or dead inside the box, until the observer looks.
So that's Step One. Experiment number Two: along comes of this idea by another
physicist; this one is called Wigner. And Eugene Wigner said, "OK,
that's well and good. So we have an observer watching the cat inside the box,
which the cat may be alive or dead. What happens if there's a friend of the
observer?" And so sometimes, that's referred to as Wigner's friend. But the
idea now is that the friend might have the final say on whether the cat is alive
or dead, based on what the friend observes, because there's this sort of...
... it's kind of like the stacked dolls... the Russian dolls inside of each other.
Or you can think of it as a sort of an entangled cluster now, that's developing.
So that's the second part of what's required to understand this new
breakthrough. The breakthrough that was recently suggested, now a couple years
ago, by Daniela Frauchiger and Renato Renner of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich--they showed that if the standard
interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, then different experimenters can
reach opposite conclusions about what a physicist in the box has measured. And what
they're doing they took what Erwin Schrodinger did, then they took what
Eugene Wigner suggested--so we first have the cat and the observer. Number two,
we've now got the Cat, the Observer, and a Friend. And three, things are
getting more complicated, and this is the picture I showed you at the beginning
here, and there's a link in this video. You can go to my blog, and see the detail,
and go to the actual article. But these "new cats in town," is a play on the
Schrodinger's cat. They're showing that now, if you've got basically the whole
apparatus of the Friend, the Observer, and the Cat, and you put that inside of a box,
and you have two different ultimate Observers watching all of that--you
actually can get different results. And right now, that flies in the face of what
people think they know about reality-- that quantum theory is supposed to
line up with what we think we know about classical physics, where we tend to
assume that there's only one history. By the
way, that's different than what some of the top physicists like Stephen Hawking
have proposed. He originally said there probably are lots of original big bangs,
for example. And he did some work in that area, earlier, before he passed away.
The idea that like to leave you with is if it's possible--and it looks like it is--
that two different observers can witness very different histories, then how good
can it get when we take a look at our own life, and recognize maybe this is
something that we can all change. Maybe it is connected to the consciousness
that we bring to the picture, and the level of attention that we're paying, and
what we're looking for. So until next time, keep asking, "How good can it get?"
I hope you will read the blog post that I wrote, because then you can take a look
at the original research, and get an idea of what you think about it. And be sure
to leave your ideas in the comments! Thanks so much.