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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Wolf<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But we do have physical explanation for the distortion of an image by a non-uniform convex lens. The refractive properties of the lens are well known and documented, so that we can accurately predict the distortion a particular lens will cause.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>While we are made of material molecules, atoms, and particles, which have an electromagnetic set of characteristics, and that means that our perceptions are based on our physical makeup, and our abilities to sense certain electromagnetic interactions, the fundamental reality that exists in the universe can continue to exist without any one of us, or all of us.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The evidence indicates that it is not only illogical but extremely arrogant to assume otherwise. Our consciousness does not create material objects in the universe, but it does allow us to sense and interpret what we sense in various, sometimes erroneous, ways. There are many ways for us to test this hypothesis, and we actually test it many times each day. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just my two cents, and my 5 senses. Opinion and tangible physical mechanisms respectively.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chip<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'> General [mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wolfgang Baer<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 21, 2018 2:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion <general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [General] To realists out there<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>To all:<o:p></o:p></p><p>I just submitted an essay contest to FQXI that is a short version of the physics of the observer I am working on.<span style='font-size:13.5pt'> One of the responses claims I am completely off the mark and was signed "realist" </span><o:p></o:p></p><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Some of you may have the same "realist" inclinations so think of this simple experiment:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Consider any object lens image setup.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Bend the image screen and you will see the image is distorted, but no such distortion changes the object.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Now do the same thing but use your eye as the lens image part of the setup.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'> Close one eye. With the other focus on an object - say a coffee cup on the desk 1 meter away. Now push the open eye from the side with your finger. This bends the retina and also moves or distorts the coffee cup.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>There is no physical mechanism in our current science that accounts for such a distortion of the coffee cup if the coffee cup you see is an independent object.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Conclusion: Neither the coffee cup nor anything we see in our daily environment is an independent objective reality. We are living in an interpretation of sensor interactions that is implemented by a physics inside the observer. Developing and defining this physics and straightening out the errors that have crept into our current physics due to the assumption that reality is the way we see it is the the the challenge confronting science today <o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre>If you want to look at the paper click on<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3043">https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3043</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>If you want to rate it it might help me win, never know.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Thanks<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Wolf<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Dr. Wolfgang Baer<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Research Director<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Nascent Systems Inc.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>tel/fax 831-659-3120/0432<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>E-mail <a href="mailto:wolf@NascentInc.com">wolf@NascentInc.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>