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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    I think the meme is just poking fun at the physics behind the whole thing, but in case anyone doesn’t know:

    It’s called the observer effect, and it happens because:

    This is often the result of utilizing instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner.

    And particularly in the double-slit experiment:

    Physicists have found that observation of quantum phenomena by a detector or an instrument can change the measured results of this experiment.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

    So for anyone who wants to have a surface understanding of the observer effect, the wiki does a fair job of the basic explanation.

    • IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI@lemmy.world
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      Yep, the observer it is not only observing, it is interacting in order to measure.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    In short

    😐 = Electron if you look

    = Electron if you don’t look

  • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
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    *Photon

  • subtext@lemmy.world
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    Can’t blame you electron, me too

  • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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    I’d read a piece that even just having a camera present has the same effect.

  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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    Me who’s not a physicist

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