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#1 External reality exists!

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...I think. I barely squeaked through Physics 2 (electromagnetism and optics) so I wouldn't know the difference here.

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Mar 5th 2009
From The Economist print edition

The good news is reality exists. The bad is it’s even stranger than people thought

“HOW wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.â€
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but......but....

they still observed SOMETHING.....thus wasn't the world observed?

This hurts my head.......stupid quantum mechanics...
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MY BRAIN! IT BURNSSSS!
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Oddly enough, the paradox doesn't bother my brain at all...

I think this is a sign that I'm too insane for my own good that I can get that...
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So we... made... antiphotons? Only we didn't?

Or...

Wow...
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my brainnnnn.. my poor pooor brain....
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This is way cool. :smile:
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