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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
You seem to know about these things.. Can you explain the concept that measuring something resets the clock? It sounds crazy.
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Yeah I think there's some dumb reporting going on (as usual), though their direct quotes make me wonder.
There's a bit more detail here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...-mostviewedbox
This resetting the clock thing is called the quantum Zeno effect, and they kind of explain it in that article. I don't know much about it, but again this "observation" wouldn't be anything new, photons from sources that allow observation of dark energy have been happening for a lot longer than we've been around. It seems these guys are assuming that the human mind has some magical property about observation.
EDIT: For the quantum Zeno effect, I guess what they're saying is since the universe base energy state isn't zero (a theory but no idea if this is actually known) dark energy has a chance of spontaneously decaying creating a new big bang. The probability of this decay decreases over time but due to the quantum Zeno effect by observing dark energy we've reset this probability back to an original higher value. Which to me still places some special quality of human observation of dark energy vs. the interaction of dark energy with other things in the universe, which is bunk as far as I know.