how do particles know when they are being observed?

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how do particles know when they are being observed?

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They don’t “know”, but in order to observe them, we have to interact with them (often by slamming them into another particle and measuring the energy and such that’s released), and the interaction changes their energy/spin/position.

It’s not like with a microorganism where you can just… look at it through a microscope.

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