“You are telling me that the particle doesn’t exist unless you observe it?” he’d ask. The instructor would go, “You can’t ask that question.” Bush felt he was back in Sunday school. It was galling to Bush that human observers could somehow be held responsible for creating quantum reality. It still galls him. “This is the latest in the long line of epic human intellectual follies that have resulted from man putting himself at the center of the universe,” he said when we met at his office at MIT. “It strikes me as nonsense.”
