how do particles know when they are being observed?
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At a really basic level, the only way we can observe particles is by bouncing something off them or touching them somehow (like how we have to bounce photons off an object in order for our eyes to see it). So it’s not that the particles “know” they’re being observed, it’s that in order to observe them, we have to affect them somehow, and affecting them alters their behavior.
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