<video><title>The Observing Universe: Relativity of the Observer</title><description>Join Sebastian Schepis in a daring and radical explorarion of the nature of observation - how it works, and how we can model it. Come with us on an exploration of entropy, energy, time, embodiment, consciousness, and much more.</description><transcript><transcript><line from="00:00:00,000" to="00:00:05,600">Quantum experiments reveal reality conforms to the observer's perspective.</line><line from="00:00:05,600" to="00:00:11,600">The act of observing affects the system with the observer's position determining the outcomes.</line><line from="00:00:11,600" to="00:00:14,720">The double slit experiment exemplifies this.</line><line from="00:00:14,720" to="00:00:22,240">Electrons fired at two slits form an interference pattern unless observed when they behave as particles.</line><line from="00:00:22,400" to="00:00:29,040">Physicist John von Numen's 1932 mathematical formalism showed that inserting the observer's</line><line from="00:00:29,040" to="00:00:35,280">measurement collapses the quantum wave function into a determined state. The delayed choice quantum</line><line from="00:00:35,280" to="00:00:41,360">eraser further demonstrates the observer's central role. Here detecting a photons path</line><line from="00:00:41,360" to="00:00:47,040">precludes interference, yet erasing that data after the photon strikes recovers the pattern.</line><line from="00:00:48,000" to="00:00:54,160">Even retroactive observation influences the past. These results imply reality is</line><line from="00:00:54,160" to="00:01:01,040">malleable, shaped by observations made. The observer's position is primary, with observation</line><line from="00:01:01,040" to="00:01:05,520">itself the operative principle actualizing one possibility from the quantum blur.</line><line from="00:01:06,160" to="00:01:11,440">We are not passive witnesses, but active participants in constructing reality</line><line from="00:01:11,440" to="00:01:16,400">through the limitations and filters of perception. When gazing at the stars,</line><line from="00:01:16,400" to="00:01:21,360">we see not an absolute space, but a universe constrained by our viewpoint.</line><line from="00:01:22,240" to="00:01:28,080">Due to light's finite speed, we view distant stars not as they are, but as they were when</line><line from="00:01:28,080" to="00:01:34,080">their light departed long ago. Our cosmic observations peer into the past,</line><line from="00:01:34,080" to="00:01:37,600">bounded by the Hubble radius centered on humanity,</line><line from="00:01:37,600" to="00:01:44,880">delimiting the observable universe. The universe beyond remains uncertain until an observation occurs,</line><line from="00:01:44,880" to="00:01:51,440">relative to the local observer's frame of reference. By embracing the observer's role in actualizing</line><line from="00:01:51,440" to="00:01:57,440">reality, our comprehension transforms. The cosmos is not an indifferent mechanism,</line><line from="00:01:57,440" to="00:02:04,720">but an interactive dialogue between observer and observed. Each observation made collapses the</line><line from="00:02:04,720" to="00:02:11,040">indeterminate haze into a singular experience, while retaining latent potentialities for</line><line from="00:02:11,040" to="00:02:17,600">future actualization. Consciousness selects from the quantum possibilities, weaving the threads</line><line from="00:02:17,600" to="00:02:24,320">of history. The universe resembles a grand interferometer, with each conscious point providing a</line><line from="00:02:24,320" to="00:02:30,880">slits to shape reality's interference pattern. By recognizing our role as participators,</line><line from="00:02:30,960" to="00:02:37,200">not mere spectators, new vistas open. The future's possibilities become pregnant with potential.</line><line from="00:02:37,760" to="00:02:42,800">We are the observers who get to write the next chapter in cosmos's unfolding epic,</line><line from="00:02:42,800" to="00:02:49,440">so gaze upward and observe what story will you tell into being today? Yours is the perspective</line><line from="00:02:49,440" to="00:02:54,080">that decides what manifests next, reality awaits your observation.</line></transcript></transcript></video>