• thrawn@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        This is a really high quality edit, I’m genuinely impressed. Probably not too much work mechanically but the attention to detail is great and someone who’s never seen it would probably think it was original. If I were a meme edit rater it would rank very high on my list. I don’t know how to make this comment not sound sarcastic or boomer-y but I actually really love this edit and will send it to people. They won’t understand it but that’s fine.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    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.

  • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
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    8 months ago

    It’s really frustrating that people who don’t understand this experiment have insanely taken into assume that a magic particle spell understands if a human being is watching or not.