Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d like to nominate Observer Effect for the Worst and Most Confusingly Named Thing Ever award.
Funny meme though.
Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d like to nominate Observer Effect for the Worst and Most Confusingly Named Thing Ever award.
Funny meme though.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
To a physicist, sure. To the lay public, observe means you’re watching it. If you’re looking away, you’re not observing. When in reality, it doesn’t matter who’s looking, if the particle is interacting with other particles, it’s being “observed”.