On Wolfs Blog, i had to post this question here.
''Question: I'm listening to your audio course from Sounds True. I have a question about what you say relative to electrons growing along a pulse and in a minute they would be the size of the Pentagon, and that the reason they don't get that big is that they are observed, and observation "cuts them down to size". Well, my question is, what observes them to change them? Obviously it would be absurd to say human beings. That would be incredibly species-centric! But in any case, plenty of electrons go unobserved for periods of time, no? Like an electron on the underside of my floor or behind a wall, etc. So when you say it keeps its small size because it's observed, by what? "God"? Consciousness?
Answer: Great question. That is the big mystery. It has been a research goal for me to find out. I am sure other physicists are equally interested and pondering this. In a certain sense atomic electrons are observed weakly be humans when they observe objects made of atoms in their everyday lives. Once a thing is observed having any mass at all, for example, a mass of a pea, that object tends to not spread very fast and only doubles its probable size in a universal lifetime of 20 billion years or so. But for smaller objects the time is much shorter--a gate molecule in the human nervous system doubles in 0.2 millisecond or so. From this varied time of doubling, and the fact that we do observe consequences of such doublings in quantum physics (the double slit experiment is just one experiment showing this--the electron becomes spread out over an area to cover two slits), we must conclude that an observer lurks somewhere.''
The qoute is not complete, because he goes on to talk about his personal belief that it is the mind of God that is reducing this electron, however, i personally feel it would be wrong to introduce that in the physics part.
I've known for a while that the electron exhibits infinite qualities when not being observed... so what is it that keeps it that way? I have a thought of my own, but i wondered what other people thought on this subject of QM that is currently unsolved?