NIHILISM! is this backed up by the existence (or non-existence) of particle theory in quantum physics? If things do not exist in a single state, do they not exist at all? Human definitions of existence are defied by quantum mechanics, because our senses are not acute enough to detect the changes in the atoms around us. We pick an image for something, an idea or ideal, and and hold the object to that idea. However, that image is not immutable. Does that make the ideal transitory? At the base level, the sub-atomic, quantum level, do things actually exist? I know the spatula may not be a spatula, though it looks like one to me, and it may change form for another person, be another object entirely, because of the force that simple observation has on the particles at the quantum level. But if I can simply deny that something exists, because I refuse to observe it, does that mean it does not exist?