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Quantum Mechanics

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From the documentary "Atomic Physics and Reality": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFvJOZ51tmc

"In Einstein’s [1955 Princeton] talk, that he gave before my ‘relativity’ seminar – the last talk that he ever gave in his life – he spoke about relativity, what it meant to him, how he had come to it; but then he went on to speak of the quantum physics, and there he spoke of his discomfort with the idea that the choice of the observer or the observing equipment has anything to do with the matter.

"He put it this way, as he paced up and down [by the blackboard], 'If a person such as a mouse looks at the universe, does that change the state of the universe?' – his vivid way to make it seem preposterous."

Wheeler, on the right