Originally Posted By: redewenur
what, precisely, does observing a pot of boiling water reveal about "the relationships between life and non-life"?


It has been argued that in order for water to change from non-boiling to boiling it must undergo a phase change, and that a phase change is a quantum action which requires superposition. It would follow that this would not take place if the water was being observed; hence the old saying that a watched pot never boils.

There never was nothing.