Let's have a look at "objective reality" -- the notion that the universe is there, separate from any observer, and that if there were no conscious observer, the universe would still be there -- thus, there are objective, measurable, quantifiable laws that are true in the absence of any observer.
In other words, the observer is relative, these laws are absolutes, and they can exist in the absence of any observer.
There's just one problem: "absolute" is relative to "relative".
What is a dependent observer dependent on -- if the universe is truly independent of them?
What is an independent universe independent of, with no subjective observer in it?
OK, let's overlook this for a moment. All observers are now gone.
With no observer anywhere in the universe at any point in history, every universal law is true everywhere in the universe, throughout all eternity, despite the fact that all of them have been discovered on Earth during a 100-year or so timespan.
Let's re-insert an observer the size of the universe into the objective universe for a moment. SH*t... take them out, quick!! ;D.
Whew. OK, an infinitely tiny observer. A single fundamental particle gazes out at the big bang (where the atom next door starts) and calculates it's been 8 billion years since.
No observers again.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles/second. Observed at no time in history, over no period of time, from no distance to any other distance, because there is no observer in existence.
I really don't think we can take the observer out of the equation 8(
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In other words, the observer is relative, these laws are absolutes, and they can exist in the absence of any observer.
There's just one problem: "absolute" is relative to "relative".
What is a dependent observer dependent on -- if the universe is truly independent of them?
What is an independent universe independent of, with no subjective observer in it?
OK, let's overlook this for a moment. All observers are now gone.
With no observer anywhere in the universe at any point in history, every universal law is true everywhere in the universe, throughout all eternity, despite the fact that all of them have been discovered on Earth during a 100-year or so timespan.
Let's re-insert an observer the size of the universe into the objective universe for a moment. SH*t... take them out, quick!! ;D.
Whew. OK, an infinitely tiny observer. A single fundamental particle gazes out at the big bang (where the atom next door starts) and calculates it's been 8 billion years since.
No observers again.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles/second. Observed at no time in history, over no period of time, from no distance to any other distance, because there is no observer in existence.
I really don't think we can take the observer out of the equation 8(
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