The point is that the past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold the “past” and the “future” are iteratively reworked and enfolded through the iterative practices of spacetimemattering-including the which-slit detection and the subsequent erasure of which-slit information-all are one phenomenon. Meeting the Universe Halfway Because truths we dont suspect have a hard time maki ng themselves felt, as when t h i rteen species of wh i ptai l l izards com posed entirely offemales stay u nd i scovered due to bias agai nst such thi ngs existing, we have to meet the u n iverse halfWay. It’s not that the experimenter changes a past that had already been present or that atoms fall in line with a new future simply by erasing information. If one focuses on abstract individual entities the result is an utter mystery, we cannot account for the seemingly impossible behavior of the atoms. Download Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad in PDF format complete free. Once again we see evidence for the ontological priority of phenomena over objects. PDF Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning Download by Karen Barad.

“Indeed, it is the quantum entanglement between the “object” and the “agencies of observation,” in this case, between the atom and the apparatus that is precisely what we need to attend to in making the interference pattern evident.

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