End of the mystery! A study of quantum physics on "reality" that surprised everyone

March 17, 2019

A study published in the United Kingdom showed what physicists had suspected for many years.

In recent days, a study in the UK has revealed what hundreds of physicists have long suspected: Quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different and contradictory realities.

This has been confirmed physicists from the Heriot-Watt University, in a study published by the portal ArXiv, where they recreated a theoretical experience of quantum physics in practice, this hypothesis being definitively demonstrated.

It started in 1961, when the physicist Eugene WignerNobel laureate, described a mental experiment in which he showed how two observers can experience different realities.

It was two people who they observed the same photon, the smallest quantitative unit of light. The same thing can exist both in the form of horizontal and vertical polarization, although until they have been observed, they are in a state in which Both conditions are fulfilled at the same time, called "superposition".

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According to the mental experiment described by Wigner, a scientist must calmly badyze the photon and determine its position. Then the other specialist, who does not know the measure of his colleague, can confirm that the photon still exists in a quantum superposition of all possible results. Every scientist observes his own reality.

It was the first time that the experiment, with a laser and a series of six photons already measured, could reach the end. After "Wigner's friends" measured the polarization of a photon and stored the result, Wigner performed a measure of interference, thus creating two different realities.

"This raises fascinating questions that force physicists to reconsider the nature of reality"said the MIT scientists after the undeniable result of this incredible experience. Because, as Wigner had predicted, Both realities can coexist even if they produce irreconcilable results.