Which came first – the observer or the particle?

Vanna Bonta
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Which came first — the observer or the particle? -Physicist Enrico Fermi asked this question in 1950, well before the discovery of the Higgs boson — a particle that was thought to be responsible for holding particles together. The particle was thought to have mass, which means it would influence how it moved through space. Yet no one knows simply because there is no way to experience it without being an observer. If the observer is assigned priority over the particle, why hasn't the particle ever been observed?

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

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