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observation, the system must interact with a laboratory device. When that device makes a measurement, the wave function of the systems
collapses, irreversibly reducing to an
eigenstate of the
observable that is registered. The result of this process is a tangible record of the event, made by a potentiality becoming an actuality.
So according to the writers of Wikipedia, there is only potentiality until it observed and measured then it becomes an actuality. That certainly sounds like nothing until something actually occurs.
You misunderstand.
Quantum events happen in far off galaxies all the time and there is nobody there to observe them.