This cartoon misled me until I realized that there is no observation without touching. Even "seeing" a particle implies that you bounced a photon off of it... a

This cartoon misled me until I realized that there is no observation without touching. Even "seeing" a particle implies that you bounced a photon off of it... and since we're talking about observing individual particles it makes sense that bouncing a photon off of it would have an effect on it.