I think it's a logical leap from "things are indeterminate until observed" to "things need to be observed." A tree falling in a forest with nothing there to hear it may not make a sound, but it has generated the waves necessary to make a sound, had there been an ear there to hear it.
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I'd tend to agree that it is a leap. I'm just trying to grapple with the implications of the descriptions of reality that physicists report. As a layperson, I can't claim to truly understand the physics of quantum mechanics, but that's how the physicists tell the story. On a quantum level, things exist only as a range possibilities. It is not until the act of measurement, or observation, that their state is fixed. Of course, they might be sexing it up to sell books. :)
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