A New Theory Indicates Physical Reality is Just Quantum Mirrors

Imagine you sit down and pick up your favorite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, the book comprises a range of sensory appearances.

But you also expect the book to have its own independent existence behind those appearances. So when you put the book down on the coffee table, walk into the kitchen, or leave your house to go to work, you expect the book still looks, feel, and smells just as it did when you were holding it.

Expecting objects to have their own independent existence – independent of us and any other objects – is actually a deep-seated assumption we make about the world.

This assumption has its origin in the scientific revolution of the 17th century and is part of what we call the mechanistic worldview. According to this view, the world is like a giant clockwork machine whose parts are governed by set laws of motion....<<<Read More>>>...