The Spectrum of Reality

Abstract

While the subjective normally exists in the mind, it is possible to transform it into the objective through the process of experimental measurement. The existence of the semiconductor hole as a real particle that determines the measurable properties of semiconductors demonstrates that a missing electron can acquire all the properties of a real particle. This analogy can be used to explain how the initially imaginary massless and elusive particle proposed by Pauli in 1930 to explain nuclear beta decay was eventually made real through experimental verification by Cowan and Reines in 1956. The act of measurement is thus able to create reality. This process is dubbed “the spectrum of reality.”While not all physical entities are directly accessible to experimental measurement, all experiments of physics always happen in the “here and now.”The design and implementation of physical experiments are often concatenations of hypotheses and measurement.Humans act as animate observers at the interface of the physical realms, and are able to create theories, and design and conduct experiments, as well as interpret their outcomes.