Experiments in quantum physics do show, in fact, that the act of us looking at something as tiny as an electron—just focusing our awareness upon what that electron is doing for even an instant in time—changes its properties during the time we are looking. The experiments suggest that the very act of observation is an act of creation, and that consciousness is doing the creating. These findings seem to support Wheeler’s statement that we can no longer think of ourselves merely as onlookers who have no effect on the world that we are observing.
