This statement:"According to quantum mechanics, you cannot ask what the properties of a quantum particle are before it is measured. Prior to observation, the particle exists in a superposition of multiple contradictory states."
There's no simple yes/no or true/false answer to questions about the state of the particle." is a puzzling statement?..isn't a "measure" actually allready asking the !question" ? To measure something is to ask and thus locate a particle's properties? Being measured is axtually a default knowing "before" question?
Reducing observation down to simplistic "yes/no" questions is not a viable process, as stated in the article, but what if we looked at a reverse perspective?..for instance, any macro entity such as an observer, when trying to locate a micro entity/paticle is actually looking from large-scale to small-scale, so what about the micro particle looking outwards..any quantum actually "know" it is being measured by default, a quantum will "know" about a MACRO entity long before the entity has located the quantum!
If one tries to locate a needle in a haystack, one could find it by chance quite quickly, or it may take an eternity, something large trying to locate something small, by its very nature has a lot of variables. Now reverse the "logic" process, what if the needle could relay its knowledge of the "seeker2, the macro entity trying to locate it, if it could signal to the observer, here I am!, look over here!...then there would be interesting alterations to the Macro to Quantum, information exchange domains?
The very fact that a Macro observer moves the Quantum needle from location to location, a brownian motion like effect by default? The needle is no observer, it has no knowledge of hide'n'seek, even though it is being moved by the act of observer trying to locate it, the observation is only one-way.
Now logical sense may have limitations, by the process of cross scale domains?..would it make sense to walk into a haysack barn and proclaim:Needle, Iam not looking for you... the questioning seems to have relevance?
Who can doubt that actually looking for an actual sowing needle for instance, causes the sowing needle to be NOT located with ease, yet as soon as one gives up and turns to walk away, the needle appears under your foot..OOWWCHH!
It is not that trees in a forest do not exist or fall over when nobody is measuring them, its the facat the quastioning itself, appears to constrain the actual outcome of probable answers"
I do really admire the ones who take the challenge to unravel the cpmplex observer/observation_measured/measure fields, quite interesting.
