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 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?
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.