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Saturday 15 May 2021

This quantum paradox will make you question reality


If you don’t finish reading this article it may never be written. If that’s not incentive to abandon a boring news piece, we’re not sure what is. A team of researchers from Australia recently published a new take on Wigner’s Friend that’s pretty mind-blowing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic: this might be the most exciting quantum physics theory since Schrodinger’s Cat. Wigner’s Friend is a theory posited by Eugene Wigner in 1961. A really dumbed-down version of it goes like this: Wigner and his friend decide to do an experiment at a quantum physics laboratory. Wigner stays outside of…

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