If we wish to observe the single electron of a hydrogen atom, we can only do so by collapsing its wave form and observing it as a particle. As soon as we cease observing it commences to spread out probabilistically in accordance with the Schrodinger equation. Where does it go? Wherever that may be, the moment we again choose to observe it, it collapses instantly.

   According to physicists, the collapse of such a wave is just too rapid to be within the limits set by the speed of light--so it cannot be within our space-time. So where was it? Heisenberg named its location "potentia," a word which he borrowed from Aristotle. To be in "potentia" is to be in a transcendent domain that appears to be conceptually identical with "non-locality" as defined by the Bell-Aspect work.

   Idealists also consider that to be non-local is to be in the domain of "consciousness," which, for them, is also the "ground of all being"--a domain which is "original, self-contained, and constitutive of all things, manifesting itself as the subject that chooses, experiences what it chooses, and which collapses the wave function in the presence of brain-minded awareness."

   Quantum theory then, when interpreted according to idealist metaphysics is paving the way for an idealist science in which consciousness is the "all of being"--and matter and materialism pale into secondary importance.

   However a primary contribution of quantum physics to this scenario is that it has positively demonstrated a new dimension, non-locality, showing that there is more to this world than just matter, Einsteinian space-time, and a pre-determined, mechanistic universe.