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Eugene Wigner's Quantum Bombshell That Hints We're All in a Sim

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Ken Rutkowski
Jul 31, 2025
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Eugene Wigner, the Nobel-winning physicist behind atomic breakthroughs, dropped a grenade on reality in the early 1960s with a deceptively simple idea: consciousness doesn't just witness the universe—it builds it. His "Wigner's Friend" thought experiment flips quantum mechanics on its head. Picture a lab where a friend measures a particle in superpositi…

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