Robert Lanza wrote a book about biocentrism. He claims that consciousness is been proven the cause of the collapse of the wave function.
He says:
"Of course, physicists also wondered whether this bizarre behavior might be caused by some interaction between the whichway QWP detector or various other devices that have been tried, and the photon. But no. Totally different which-way detectors have been built (reference?), none of which in any way disturb the photon, yet we always lose the interference pattern."
Is this true? Which experiments exclude the idea that the interaction between measuring device and photon caused the collapse of the wavefunction.
Further in his book, he says:
"In 2002, scientists showed that particles of light “photons” knew – in advance – what their distant twins would do in the future. They tested the communication between pairs of photons. They let one photon finish its journey – it had to decide whether to be either a wave or a particle. Researchers stretched the distance the other photon took to reach its own detector. However, they could add a scrambler to prevent it from collapsing into a particle. Somehow, the first particle knew what the researcher was going to do before it happened – and across distances instantaneously as if there were no space or time between them. They decide not to become particles before their twin even encounters the scrambler. It doesn’t matter how we set up the experiment. Our mind and its knowledge is the only thing that determines how they behave. Experiments consistently confirm these observer-dependent effects."
Is it true that scientists came to that conclusion, based on that experiment? Which other experiments confirmed these observer-dependent effects?
He says:
"Of course, physicists also wondered whether this bizarre behavior might be caused by some interaction between the whichway QWP detector or various other devices that have been tried, and the photon. But no. Totally different which-way detectors have been built (reference?), none of which in any way disturb the photon, yet we always lose the interference pattern."
Is this true? Which experiments exclude the idea that the interaction between measuring device and photon caused the collapse of the wavefunction.
Further in his book, he says:
"In 2002, scientists showed that particles of light “photons” knew – in advance – what their distant twins would do in the future. They tested the communication between pairs of photons. They let one photon finish its journey – it had to decide whether to be either a wave or a particle. Researchers stretched the distance the other photon took to reach its own detector. However, they could add a scrambler to prevent it from collapsing into a particle. Somehow, the first particle knew what the researcher was going to do before it happened – and across distances instantaneously as if there were no space or time between them. They decide not to become particles before their twin even encounters the scrambler. It doesn’t matter how we set up the experiment. Our mind and its knowledge is the only thing that determines how they behave. Experiments consistently confirm these observer-dependent effects."
Is it true that scientists came to that conclusion, based on that experiment? Which other experiments confirmed these observer-dependent effects?
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