Patrick Elliott wrote:
> invent an experiment where a particle(s) is held in a quantum state, and 
> you could get some fool to walk through the middle of them. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate

Note that you can make these bigger than the room the equipment is in, so 
theoretically you could walk thru it. :-)

> So, no.. A 
> quantum instrument doesn't need someone "listening" to it to do 
> something. 

This was, indeed, the whole point of the Schodinger's cat argument. Is the 
cat alive enough to collapse its own waveform?

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