Albert Einstein resisted the observer effect. Just like common sense he adhered to realism

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:01]So, Einstein believes in reality, should you? Because this is where we're headed in terms of scientism and the lack of philosophy in 21st century, this non-local theory in physics and in pop culture is progressing. And this was something Einstein resisted. People will believe Einstein had a subjectivist relativized worldview because of the theory of relativity. But in fact, there's a lot of things that show that he was the opposite. One of those is the non-locality versus locality thing. Let me explain it really quick. So, basically, a particle when you measure it nowadays is seen as in some sense not existing and not having meaning in time and space until after it's observed.

[00:00:46]This is called the observer effect. And so, Einstein resisted this because he believed reality is real. Just that simple. And all those scientists, go ahead and comment and say how terrible I am, how bad my hair is, stuff like that.

[00:00:58]Um and how a philosopher shouldn't be allowed to comment on science.

[00:01:01]Forget the fact that you're getting it backwards, but just go ahead because you want the world to keep going the way it's going, that's fine. You're going to get lost in that particular regression.

[00:01:10]But for those of you who care in a in are willing to critique, Einstein was very resistant to this. And one of the main takeaways about this observer effect and this non-locality that particles could do things at a distance um together. And Einstein believed that couldn't happen because of the speed of light.

[00:01:30]The conclusion for Einstein you know, after he resisted this and did um those three statements basically that he made around the 1920s, the EPR paper, um the rolling the dice theory, and the comment about locality that the that speed between the two non-local particles can't exceed speed of light.

[00:01:52]Um so, in other words, they can't communicate. And so, this measurement that we're doing showing they were communicating wasn't possible at these great distances. So for Einstein the takeaway was we were missing something not that the laws of physics need to be consumed by the observation which means we observe this non-locality therefore must be true. We have to accept it. We have to continue on with these theories um and let them define physics cuz in 21st century they define physics. And so I think Einstein would say today as a philosopher because he was a philosopher and a scientist that's another takeaway.

[00:02:29]He would say that this has transitioned into pop culture and that it is part and parcel of the decline of civilization.

[00:02:35]He might not say it like that but the point is that he was a resistant for a reason. He wanted to continue on with local realism the thing basically that objects have a real content and a real uh meaning in time and space before their observer gets to them. And the fact that we can't see that means we're missing something in our testing. Thanks for coming.