Joshua Roebke's "The Reality Tests"

"Do you really believe that the moon exists only when you look at it?" Such has been inquired by Albert Einstein while on the discussion of quantum mechanics' implications for reality. I do not fully buy into the fact that we create what we observe, and that things are evident because we perceive them being there. I think that properties we want to observe exist before we actually observe them. Sure, we cannot perceive the world as it exists fundamentally, such as in the terms of atoms and the building blocks of matter, but it is widely agreed and proven that there are physical components of matter that compose items available for our viewing. Atoms and tiny particles exist before we measure them, so why wouldn't they exist before we observe them? Properties and items exist before we observe them because if one individual just happens to no observe one item presented to them, another individual will come by and observe what the other had not. I think such a statement made about observation and existence is too broad because the power to observe is different between individuals.

Roebke attempts to conquer a very complex idea in reference to quantum physics. I do not even know if I fully understood what his thesis was, so I would say it was very weak. Most of the other articles in the book did a great job of connecting more complex ideas like global warming, e-waste, and the internet to issues with humanity that were easy for the reader to connect to. There was no accessible connection that was clearly made between the individual reading and the theory of quantum physics besides the mere example of perceiving the color of a blue couch. There was nothing tangible available in his article that could convince me about these reality tests because the concepts went over my head. All of the other articles did a good job of bringing the material down to eye level for the assumed un-knowledgable individual. Roebke's did not, and in this way, I believe he had a rather weak argument.