Comment on Observer
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI feel like calling it an “observer” is the worst thing since Ben Franklin decided to name positive and negative electrical charges. “Observer” implies that it’s someone watching the thing, when really it’s just the light interacting with something.
Kaput@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, that’s what bothers me about the whole thing. All those ‘‘popular science’’ exposé telling us that if you just look at it, it will know and change from wave to particle. They put this big eye icon next to the slit and imply you are stupid if you dont just believe it as told. the experiment with polarized filter someone else showed me was interesting, but that’s not merely observing.