I'm seeing more and more therapists and coaches justifying their crappy theories by pulling out the joker card of quantum physics. Science™️ supposedly "proved that the mind shapes reality" through the Young's interference experiment. It's ✨quantum✨. An experiment that demonstrates none of that.

For the sellers of bullshit, this experiment supposedly demonstrated that the observer influences matter through the mind. That's misunderstanding it. And that's a shame. Because this experiment is really interesting, and a bit magical all the same.

I'm not going to go into detail because it would be long and no one would read it, but it's fascinating. So let me know if you want to know (I love listening to myself talk). Roughly speaking, it's the experiment that proves that particles behave both like point objects and like waves.

Because it's a bit as if they were passing through two places at the same time in the context of this experiment. And every time a charlatan brings it up, he explains that it's the scientist's mind that modifies reality to dictate the particle's behavior.

"Because you see, scientists say observation influences the outcome, so the mind shapes reality, it's logical. Proof: Young's interference experiment. So now buy my $ 2,000 training course to manifest abundance or cure cancer with your hands."

But there's a tiny bit of truth in all that. A drop of truth in an ocean of shit. It's true that in quantum physics, observation influences the outcome. An object can be in several states at once, and observing it "forces" it to reduce itself to a single state. But it's not Greg and Courtney,

the scientists with their big brains and observant eyes, who influence the outcome with their minds. To observe, there must be an interaction between one thing and another! If I want to observe my ass under a microscope, I'll have to illuminate it.

And so, bombard it with photons (the particles of light) that will interact with the matter that makes up my ass, be altered, before being sent back to my eyes so that I can contemplate the marvel that is my butt. And it's the same for a quantum object! If I want to observe it (measure it),

then I'll have to throw something at it—photon, electron, proton, whatever—and see what comes back to my measuring device, and how. I make things interact with each other to see what comes out. And quantum states don't like that. Quantum superpositions are very fragile states,

and seem to pass through several trajectories at once. But it's not Greg and Courtney's eyes that dictate where they go and how. It's the interaction with the matter that makes the place where they crash! When they arrive, they crash into a measuring screen and lose their quantum state.

They are "forced" to reduce to a single, well-defined state. A state chosen "at random" according to a wave of probabilities. And it is there and only there that Courtney and Greg will be able to observe. They have not influenced anything. The experiment doesn't say that.

So when a therapist, a coach, or some other dream salesman pulls out the quantum physics card and tells you it's "scientifically proven," "Young's interference experiment" and all that; run away!