Uncovering a Simulation

It is a touch OTT Einstein, hero of mine as he is, was very wrong when it came to quantum theory. But there is no need to worry - the Moon is there, and not simply on the whim of an onlooker. The realm we inhabit at our length scales is a classical domain, caused by the near-infinite number of interactions between the constituent components. The Copenhagen Interpretation is irrelevant to this, and to me is merely an observed approximation that occurs when a quantum domain interacts with a classical domain. Admittedly, take our world, isolate it from all external interactions, and it will behave quantum mechanically to an external observer... and then the moon could well disappear

No, it does not, despite the many who say and write otherwise. Ask someone who works or has worked with quantum theory (Son Goku and myself, for example) and we will tell you something very different. Again, this is wrong. Science magazines may well say this, but they are wrong. Scientists who are not properly aquainted with quantum theory may say this, and they are wrong. Decoherence is a fact. A complete theory of decoherence is not fully established, because there are some technicalities - and as ever, there are philosophical ambiguities. But the vast majority of us have accepted decoherence as the definitive reason for the measurement/observer problem - modulo the above ambiguities.Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.

Got to agree with Percy, there. It is attrocious! That's like saying that the first difference between the Moon and cheese is that the Moon is much further away than most cheese...Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.