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the belly inequality could be violated

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with each other faster than the speed of

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light now this would violate special

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relativity but quantum mechanics would

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still be left intact and the notion that

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there is an underlying reality would be

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left intact if you allowed particles

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communicate with each other faster than

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the speed of light well as it turns out

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the legged inequality sort of takes away

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the last amount of freedom last degree

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of freedom that was still left over in

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the bell in equality that I was just

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talking about and this is a diagram of

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the legged inequality taken from New

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Scientist magazine it's a fairly

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complicated one and that you're not

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measuring simply a spin here and a spin

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there from entangled particles you're

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taking entangled particles measuring the

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spin here a spin there and then you're

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measuring three elliptical polarization

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angles I don't want to go into that in

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part because it would be way above the

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level of this talk and secondly because

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I don't fully understand this yet

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because this has not been clarified in

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any qualitative way in the article a new

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scientist nor in the anything I've found

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since that has given me an adequate

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explanation for what this what the

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details of this are but the point is

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that it's been hailed as the both by the

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group in Vienna that made the

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measurement at my New Scientist magazine

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as pretty much ruling out not only

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nonlocality but also realism as a

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explanation for how particles can be

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correlated with each other and yet

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quantum mechanics predicts that the

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relationships between these measurements

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that you make are rather different

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quantum mechanically than they are if

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you assume that the particles could

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communicate with each other or that they

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would be if the particles really have

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these properties and you're simply

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measuring them but you're not creating

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anything when you make the measurement

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you're making a real objective

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measurement so recent experiments led by

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the group at the University of Vienna

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Austria provide the most compelling

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evidence yet that there is no objective

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reality beyond what we observe so it's

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really the observation the observation

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that creates the reality what they found

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is that legate's in equality is violated

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as well as bells even if you allow for

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instantaneous influences quantum

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measurements do not fit with the idea of

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an objective reality so as they say in

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it we in fact create reality now if

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quantum theory denies a straightforward

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physical reality of atoms it would also

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seem to deny the straightforward

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physical reality of chairs which are

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made of atoms now we like to think that

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the world can be divided into quantum

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and classical realms and in fact that's

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sort of the way physics operates

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practically but in fact there really is

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transition from quantum to macro reality

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is not not a real one in fact it's not

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not even really blurry it's there's one

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continuous law of physics and it takes

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us from one level to the other you can

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very large for example there is a

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gravitational wave detecting bar that

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weighs about a ton that has to be

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analyzed using quantum mechanics because

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of the the precision of what you're

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knowledge of the the the well of that

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bar itself so a quantum objects not

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necessarily one that's tiny it can be a

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huge thing the size of a well one ton

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barbell prior to the legged experiment

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was thought that observation one object

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and instantaneous influence behavior

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another object another one is greatly

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distant even though physical force

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connects the two well it's even more

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mysterious now because what these

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experiments are telling us the leg

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experiments is a consciousness creating

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both realities the observation now the

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the last thing that is a rather

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mysterious about quantum physics and

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this ruling out of the notion that the

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particles can communicate with each

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other or that there is some realism in

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the particles that were measuring rather

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than being created at the point of

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measurement at the moment of measurement

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is that the observation also creates it

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back history it's possible for objects

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experiment that I'm thinking of if you

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where it can be divided and go along two

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possible paths then there are two things

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half and goes along two paths then it's

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possible that these two

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as when the obvious emerge will

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interfere with each other and you get an

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interference pattern and so if you get

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an interference pattern then you know

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that the object has been split at some

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point and gone off along two parallel

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paths and therefore this shows the

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interference pattern that that is a

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signature of that having happened the

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alternative is that the particle can go

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whether you whether the particle goes

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along one path splits and then along

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both of them and interferes or whether

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it goes along a path doesn't split but

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measurement you make down here so you

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measurement what the particle does back

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because the object has to do what you

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slit the object comes out of then it's

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not possible for that object to is split

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consistent with what you measure if you

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interference pattern then that

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the beam splitter but the object of that

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object has passed that point of no

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return so once again it's the

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observation that creates the reality and

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in fact even creates the back history

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for that reality so the point of all

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there's evidence coming out of the

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physics lab not for God but for the

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notion that consciousness is creating

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reality at the level of quantum physics

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quantum physics then by implication the

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rest of reality sama also is being

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created by consciousness and I think

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consciousness is actually the the

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formative element behind the universe

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epiphenomenon coming out of our brains

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consciousness it is the ultimate reality

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universe is finely tuned it's not

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there is a multiverse of universes and

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ours is not special we're just one of an

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ensemble that's fine it's equally

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logical it's equally

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rational but I don't think it has any

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advantage over the notion that has cost

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us all the way behind the universe thank

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the guy i saw first my name is Kenny

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Arnett I'm wondering what happens on a

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lifeless planet to quantum mechanics

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raised a question though that i think

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deserves an answer let me open up my

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computer again because after all I've

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time because I went early didn't I so

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let's see if i can find slide here that

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i prepared as possible response to a

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that the von Neumann chain the question

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anything and anything that interacts

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with a quantum situation constitute a

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measurement and this question looked at

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mathematical genius he was one of the

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people that invented the the operator

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analysis of quantum mechanics the

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operator operator formalism of quantum

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mechanics and when he showed was that

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quantum theory makes physics encounters

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with consciousness inevitable so he

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considered an apparatus a measuring

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apparatus like a Geiger counter he said

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ok now that Geiger counter whether it

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here huh take some measuring apparatus

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that would look at whether or not say a

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quantum event is happening in a given

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box and you can argue well that guy girl

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measurement is really equivalent to an

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observer looking at that the Geiger

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counter of course is not conscious so

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kind of Geiger counter substitute for a

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human being his answer was no what

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happens at the Geiger counters the

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Geiger counters state becomes becomes

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entangled with the state of the quantum

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situations trying to measure if you then

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try to put a detector to measure whether

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the Geiger counter has registered or not

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then that detector becomes entangled

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with become superimposed with quantum

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chain is not broken until a conscious

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observer decides to make a measurement

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and I see a hand going up in the back

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there's probably going to challenge that

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interpretation but this anointment chain

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is that the explanation or the

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rationalization or the rationale I

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the rationale for why it really takes an

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observer to make a quantum event happen

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and to break the well bring about the