[Mr. Now]

Do they? I post this and hope to hear from some physicists on this forum.

The role of attention and observation on actual state (vs. probability distributions) is certainly intriguing:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=...cle=1&cat=0

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-everett/#6

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle