Sebastian Junger

Those are human projections, right?

But maybe at the quantum level,

We just don't quite understand what death is, what reality is, what consciousness is.

So my father was a physicist.

And just weirdly, my great aunt had a long, passionate affair with Schrodinger, the physicist who...

Schrodinger's cat, right?

And one of the mysteries of quantum physics, and I'm sure you've come into this in your studies and your research and your conversations, one of the profound mysteries of quantum physics that was sort of broken wide open about 100 years ago by people like Schrodinger and Heisenberg

that when you observe a subatomic particle, it acts differently than if you don't observe it, right?

So you create basically the act of conscious observation.

Like if I, you know, if I look at that ashtray, the ashtray does exactly what it does if I don't look at it, right?

In the macroscopic world, conscious observation doesn't change anything, right?

At the

In the subatomic world, it changes everything, right?

So a subatomic particle, an electron, is in all positions as a statistical probability.

It's in all positions until you observe it and then it's in one position, right?

If you fire a photon at two slits in a metal plate with some photographic film on the other side to mark where the photon hits,

If you fire the photon at a plate with two slits, it's the famous double slit experiment.

Fire the photon at two slits and actively monitor it with a photon detector while it's moving.

It will go through one slit and hit the strike plate on the far side with a signature of passage through one slit.

If you fire a photon through two slits and don't monitor it,