> I was thrown off by the expression "quantum observation" because I thought you were talking about the observer effect I admit that the observer effect was th

> I was thrown off by the expression "quantum observation" because I thought you were talking about the observer effect I admit that the observer effect was the first thing that sprang to mind when I was thinking of how the uncertainty principle was stated. That's probably why I worded it so poorly. > His remarks read more like an autopsy than someone being in the situation he was in. Seeing as how all this took place soon after the war, I imagine he may have considered it something of a post-mortem.