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		x3n0ph3n3 on July 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A physicist who bets that gravity can’t be quantiz... > This has been done, and we only see the gravity from the cannon ball that we placed, and not the alternate location it might have been placed at. Doesn't this presume that your brain deciding where to place the cannon ball was an uncertain quantum event? Doesn't it also presume quantum gravity does not exist?

FollowingTheDao on July 10, 2023 | [–]

Your brain is not deciding where the cannon ball is, it is predicting where it is and them making that prediction a certainty. That is the collapse of the wave function, turning a probability into a certainty.

lavelganzu on July 10, 2023 | [–]

No:

> Based on whether there is a click in a Geiger counter, choose which one to put a cannon ball next to.

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