Eli5: Does a photon really act different by looking at it? How does it know it’s being observed?

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Eli5: Does a photon really act different by looking at it? How does it know it’s being observed?

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It knows that it’s being observed because it has to interact with the detector. So, when photon interacts with the detector they change their behavior.

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