Eli5: How observation affects, something is particle or wave

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I mean how does it know I’m looking at it or not? Does it have conciousness?

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It’s not the observation itself, it’s how you do the observing. You need to bounce light off of something to see it. While photons usually don’t impart much energy, it’s a different story for single particles. You are interacting with it by measuring it, that changes the state of the system and this is unavoidable.

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