On 9/17/2011 9:58, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Observer in the case of quantum mechanics is not a "person" looking at the
> thing, its "any object/particle that interacts, to take a measurement."

Nope.  Contradicted by experimental evidence. Go read the other branch of 
the thread, and read the quantum erasure articles.

> Whether or not something living looks at the result is *not* what produces
> the effect. Geeze, if that interpretation where true, then quantum effects
> would never have happened *at all* for billions of years prior to the
> formation of life.

No, quantum *collapse* wouldn't have happened. :-)

> *Any* interaction "measures" the state of the particle
> *period*.

Again, this is contradicted by experimental evidence.

Unless you have something else to point to, that shows where an experiment 
where the scientists took a measurement but then didn't look at it still 
caused the collapse?

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