“Here is the answer to Einstein’s question about the moon. Yes, it is there when no one observes it – because the environment is already, and without cease, ‘measuring’ it. All of the photons of sunlight that bounce off the moon are agents of decoherence, and more than adequate to fix its position in space and give it a sharp outline. The universe is always looking.”
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“The universe supports every thought we choose to think and to believe.”
“The museum of the universe has no tour guides.”
“The theme song of the universe plays forever in the background. Some of us hear it.”
“The song of the universe needs no words to make sense.”
“How can an arrangement of carbon molecules try to figure out the universe as a whole?”