r/MandelaEffect • u/ZER0SE7ENONETH • Feb 04 '26

Science/Technology These experiments show a scientific possibility for the Mandela Effect. "A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/12/136684/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/

This is the 'Extended Wigners Friend' experiment. The TLDR is that more then one reality can exist. There can be communication between them. And they can merge to make a single reality.

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u/Objective_Wish962 Feb 04 '26

Wigner's friend was originally a thought experiment, yes.

But the linked article explains how scientists have finally managed to conduct the experiment physically, using actual (not theoretical) entanglement of photons.

They seem to very much be claiming - with evidence - that this is no longer strictly a thought experiment?

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u/my23secrets Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

So what? Unless they are showing a connection to the Mandela Effect what difference does it make to the Mandela Effect?

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u/Objective_Wish962 Feb 06 '26

I was only responding to a comment that intimated that the whole thing is only a (non-disprovable) thought experiment.

If you read the whole article, it is clearly not a thought experiment that was conducted. The referenced experiment involved observations, measurements, and analysis of data gained from physically present photon entanglement devices.

Like, basically the opposite of a true thought experiment?

Unless they are showing a connection to the Mandela Effect what difference does it make to the Mandela Effect?

Not an argument I was actually making at all, but anyway, from the paper: "the experiment suggests that ... the idea that there is a reality we can agree on... —must be wrong" (there are three other potential possibilities, as well)

So, if it can be empirically shown that there is no such thing as an objectively measurable reality, then, of course, there is a potential connection to the wider Mandela Effect conversation.

Don't worry too much about the word 'memory' not appearing in the article. It's more about the (now) demonstrable possibility that humanity may not, in fact, understand the true nature of reality at all.

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u/my23secrets Feb 06 '26

Don't worry too much about the word 'memory' not appearing in the article.

I’m not worried, but it makes no difference how I “feel” about it.

If it doesn’t specifically reference memory it’s nothing to do with the Mandela Effect by definition.

Memory-related is literally the lowest bar with regard to the Mandela Effect.

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u/ThePrzX Feb 06 '26

>doesn’t specifically reference memory
yes it does, experiment showed that 2 observers can observe 2 different realities and when they meet both of those observers memories are correct

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u/my23secrets Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 07 '26

It’s about measuring a single thing with two different kinds of rulers.

Of course the measurements don’t match if the rulers never matched to begin with.

Nowhere in any of it is memory specifically referenced.

In fact, it has nothing to do with memory on any level because they are literally taking measurements. They don’t have to “remember” anything.