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The NEW SCIENCE of Moon Formation

S2023 · E1 · 11 Jan 2023 · 21 min

Einstein once asked whether “the moon exists only when I look at it?". It was rhetorical objection to the idea that measurement in quantum mechanics causes reality to become real. But there was a time when the moon didn’t exist, and then hours later suddenly did. At least, according to the latest simulations of its formation.