We are conscious of the distortion in our reality-perception. Our senses, communities, and knowledge all have an influence on how we perceive the world.
You might also want to reconsider your conviction that
science will always present you with an objective reality. Today, physicists
can confirm a theory that Nobel Prize winner Eugen Wigner first proposed in
1961.
The experiment's "Wigner's Friend" environment is
not overly challenging. You start off with a quantum system that is superposed,
which means that both of its states coexist simultaneously up until the point
of measurement. The polarisation (the axis on which a photon spins) in this
illustration is both horizontal and vertical.
The system will break down and the photon will become
trapped in one of those two states when it is measured. The experiment is being
conducted in the lab by Wigner's pal. For Wigner, who is not in the lab and is
unaware of the results of the experiment, the quantum system—which is crucially
also inclusive of the lab—remains in superposition.
Both are accurate even though the results are different.
Therefore, it appears that Wigner's and Wigner's friend's two objective
realities coexist. (This is similar to Schrödinger's cat, a superposition
thought experiment, supposing that both Schrödinger and his cat-in-a-box were
in boxes.) That presents a challenge.
For a very long time, it has been hard to test this notion.
After witnessing his friend do an experiment, Wigner finds it challenging to
calculate the quantum mechanics formula. But because to recent developments, it
was possible to design a quantum mechanics experiment that would exactly
reproduce that.
The system's four entangled observers and cutting-edge
six-photon experiment showed that while one part of the system generated a
measurement, the other indicated that the measurement had not been performed.
Two realities were simultaneously measured. This validates
the assertion made by quantum theories, whose conceptual framework already
takes observer dependence into account, claims the study.
The facts established by the two observers' objectivity are
called into doubt by this, the researchers write in their report, which can be
viewed on ArXiv.
Can their contradictory records be reconciled, or are they
inherently irreconcilable, making it impossible to accept them as "facts
of the world" that are objective and independent of the viewpoint of the
observer?
Even if science is the best tool we have for comprehending
reality, the effect and limitations of the observers are widely acknowledged.
Relativity says that observers may not see simultaneous events at the same
moment.
Quantum physics teaches us that experiments are affected by
the observers' actions. Now, it appears that two worlds might coexist, at least
on a quantum level.
Reference: MIT Technology Review