Title: Observing a Phenomenon Affects Its Outcome - Fact or Myth?
Headings: Observing a Phenomenon Affects Its Outcome
Observing a Phenomenon Affects Its Outcome Fact
Can Observing Something Change Its Outcome?
Quick Summary of the Observer Effect
The Observer Effect
Dual Wave-Particles and the Double-Slit Experiment
Double-Slit Experiment:
Schrödinger’s Cat
Wavefunction Collapse and Quantum Superposition
The Uncertainty Principle
What We Know Today
Conclusion
References
Citations

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A video where scientists discuss the Observer effect in Quantum Mechanics in a rational way. The Observer Effect
In most of the observable and measurable world things either are or aren’t. In most computers, everything is a “1” or a “0”. The power is either on or off. You are either sitting in your chair or aren’t. Quantum computers however, are not limited to binary, instead everything is both “1” and “0” until it is observed (as they use the phenomena of “quantum superposition”). In the quantum world (the very small sub-atomic world) particles like quarks, electrons, and photons can exist in more than one place at a time (a state of superposition). If we look for a particle in one place it will be there, if we look in another place it will be there, and if we don’t look it will exist in more than one place at the same time.