It's not just equipment, it's anything that can "observe" them.PsYcHo wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2017 3:02 am I think that actually makes my assumption more valid. If by necessity, the equipment to measure quantum phenomena actually changes it's behavior (or more accurately, the "things" we use to passively observe actually are not that passive, thereby altering the "observation" ), then it would be just as likely that equipment to measure paranormal phenomena would do the same.
Whether it's a ghost-meter, or a "psychic" who can see it. The point is it has to do with the measurement, not the mind.
This is why we don't see a lot of macro-scale quantum phenomena around us; these systems practically get broken down through interactions.
Double slit is a rare example, but in either case there IS something to observe. If ghosts or something behaved the same way, we could observe them in the same way of double slit; the photons are still real, and they manifest as a phenomenon whether we measure them or not, it's just the probability distribution that's disturbed.
But this doesn't make sense; you'd need a sensible theory for how this happens.
Even something like "rain comes from clouds" doesn't really make sense UNTIL you understand the physics of it. Then it becomes sensible, otherwise it's just an assumption or matter-of-fact thing that has no sense to it.
That would mean a contradiction, and make it implausible.
Sense requires something more than lacking immediate contradiction; it needs understanding on a deeper level of the mechanisms.