I don't understand the observer effect in physics.


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Really because I heard it dropped to a third?


Vidmaster7 wrote:
Really because I heard it dropped to a third?

Nothing says you had to wind up in the same reality.


*hates Universe man*


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Finally, I get a break from all those beatings!


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Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:
Set wrote:

I keep closing my eyes and opening them again, and yet you are still here. This observer effect is bull!

Based on my understanding of quantum mechanics, if you keep one eye open and close the other, you make everything only "half there": still visible but intangible.

...

BRB, going to go make a bank vault intangible so I can walk inside and loot the cash.

*sigh*

I'll go get the Bactine...


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Bactine? Is that the one with one hump or two humps? Or do the humps, like, merge at a quantum level?


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Scientific Scrutiny wrote:
Bactine? Is that the one with one hump or two humps? Or do the humps, like, merge at a quantum level?

Due to the observer effect, there are simultaneously no humps and all the humps. Possibly leading to a quantum foam.


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Having spent many an unpleasant hour aboard a camel I can confirm the foam. *shudders*


Sometimes the camels get smooshed together to make bigger camels.


Dromedaries aside...
a reader interprets the observer's opinionated notes about an event within that implied observer's viewpoint at the time, there is no effect other than an implied one in the noted viewpoint that a reader interprets as valid for that perspective of the event. Determining the original perspective can be non-trivial to transendental as time and randomized conditions may not be easily reconstituted or reversible especially if bounday conditions are isolated by restrained fields of quantum states.


IRL You open the box and interpret weather the cat is alive or dead. The cat had that state before you observed it. If you open the box fast enough you can free the cat and it can avoid the poison.

If a tree falls in the forest it makes sound waves even if no one hears it. Only other plants can hear it scream. Trees live in an entirely different way so someone watching a tree fall may make very little difference to the tree.

I feel the observer effect is more about the observers mass and space occupied. Also, you can sometimes feel that you are being watched.

A lady took in what she thought was a stray dog. It turned out to be a fox. It kept eating birds and ignoring the dog food. The vet told her it was a fox and would remain one no matter what she believed so she gave it to the zoo.

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