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No one (today) really believes that it is the observation that 'causes' a change in the experiment. What is happening is that the observer is becoming entangled
by ajkjk 5y ago
No one (today) really believes that it is the observation that 'causes' a change in the experiment. What is happening is that the observer is becoming entangled with the experiment.
- DangitBobby 5y agoI don't really understand the difference. It sounds like you're saying the act of observation entangles you, and the entanglement is the cause of the collapse. It's just adding one more link in the causal chain.
- ajkjk 5y agoThe difference is that there is no special thing called 'collapse'; when you write down the laws of physics, it doesn't exist. It's an emergent phenomenon, and it's not surprising that it happens, although it's very counterintuitive _if_ you are starting in the naive model of treating quantum waves like classical ones.