{"id":195046,"date":"2025-10-12T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195046\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:01:12","slug":"are-observers-fundamental-to-physics-or-simply-byproducts-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195046\/","title":{"rendered":"Are observers fundamental to physics, or simply byproducts of it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are observers central to physics, or are they more accurately framed as bystanders to and byproducts of phenomena that exist independently of consciousness? In this interview from the long-running series Closer to Truth, Bernard Carr, an emeritus professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, traverses the <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-elegant-physics-experiment-to-decode-the-nature-of-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">double-slit experiment<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/cosmopsychism-explains-why-the-universe-is-fine-tuned-for-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fine-tuning argument<\/a> and more to explore what significance, if any, first-person observation holds in the realm of fundamental physics. In his conversation with the US presenter Robert Lawrence Kuhn, he doesn\u2019t adopt a personal stance. Instead, he considers these persistent questions through a contemporary frame, assessing how discussions around them have evolved and where they stand among physicists today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are observers central to physics, or are they more accurately framed as bystanders to and byproducts of phenomena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2302,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-195046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-physics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}