According to a new academic paper in the Journal Of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, the structure of everything around us, including space and time, may have been created by our own observation.
According to the authors of the paper, the physical world is not something separate from us but is a creation of our own consciousness.
We, the observers, are defining the structure of physical reality itself.
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