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So, the Sun doesn't exist when experimenter is unconscious? I see.

It seems like at least Philosophy 101 should be mandatory to quantum physicists.)

Reality doesn't depend on an observer (who distorts it by his observation). Reality just is.

There are light and other temporary states of what we call "energy". That's it. Time, space, relativity are human concepts - the hard-wired modes of perception which conditions our experience. From a Photon's perspective none of these exist.




> at least Philosophy 101 should be mandatory to quantum physicists

Or perhaps quantum physics should be mandatory for Philosophy 101?


Photons can't have "temporary states" because photons don't experience time. That's where the word "temporary" comes from, the Latin "tempus" meaning "time".




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