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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI 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.
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:
And particularly in the double-slit 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.