https://quanticzen.com/essays/ Essays on quantum physics and contemplative practice: the observer effect, uncertainty, entanglement, and decoherence, read next to mindful attention, not-knowing, dependent origination, and impermanence. en Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 https://quanticzen.com/essays/observer-effect-and-mindful-attention/ https://quanticzen.com/essays/observer-effect-and-mindful-attention/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Quantum measurement needs no mind, and mindful attention collapses no wavefunction. What each "observer" actually does, and the narrower resemblance that survives once the popular version is set aside. https://quanticzen.com/essays/uncertainty-and-not-knowing/ https://quanticzen.com/essays/uncertainty-and-not-knowing/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 A precise mathematical bound on conjugate variables, and a cultivated posture toward all of experience. Why "uncertain" doesn't mean the same thing twice. https://quanticzen.com/essays/entanglement-and-dependent-origination/ https://quanticzen.com/essays/entanglement-and-dependent-origination/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Entangled particles and dependently arisen phenomena both trouble the idea of separately existing things — for entirely different reasons, at entirely different scales. https://quanticzen.com/essays/decoherence-and-impermanence/ https://quanticzen.com/essays/decoherence-and-impermanence/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Quantum coherence dissolves in nanoseconds through environmental interaction; Buddhist impermanence is a claim about everything, always. What the shared vocabulary of dissolving hides.