The Observer Effect Backfires

The Observer Effect Backfires
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The ultimate quantum mechanics joke! In the top panel, we see a person walking through a double-slit experiment setup, creating an interference pattern. But in the bottom panel, the person is gone and we just see the wave pattern. Why? Because in quantum physics, particles behave like waves until they're observed—then they act like particles!

This is basically the quantum version of "you had ONE job!" The observer factory's sole purpose is to collapse wave functions, but when nobody's watching, even the observer turns into a probability wave. Talk about a workplace paradox—who watches the watchers?

Schrödinger would be rolling in his box right now... both dead and alive, of course.

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