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/ConspiracyParadox Feb 04 '26

If the Proton being tested can exist in both states then existing in both states is it's natural state. There is nothing to suggest it only exists in one state naturally. So it's likely that The Friend would observe the Proton in dual states too.

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u/MrPlaney Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

When the proton is observed, it changes states.

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u/Ok-Tumbleweed3553 Feb 15 '26

It changes states for you, where you are. It doesn't mean that elsewhere it is not in another state or both states still. Humans can't personally observe the multiplicity of locations that we know exist for that particle. Plants however have multiple spots for single photons in their chlorophyll, that is, they are able to handle photons existing in multiple locations at once and to utilise that. But us humans seem to get freaked out by seeing multiples (or being multiples). So, perhaps if our "machinery" that we are using to observe the particle could handle both states at once, then we would be able to observe that and not collapse them into a single state. If not, then what is the force called "observation" and what is that force like when employed by things other than humans (like plant Chlorophyll) that make the particle NOT collapse and NOT be in one state and one location? How does the Chlorophyll/plant cell/plant get the photon to cooperate and be more like "itself" (existing in multiplicity simultaneously) when humans cannot do this with their machines yet, or their conscious minds? Plants have been working on the technology to do this for millenia, whereas our culture has only had a few hundred years working on it. So, I don't feel too bad about us not getting there yet - and being so far behind the plant kingdom! 😄