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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Because a photon (particle of light) smashes into them. That’s how we observe them, by measuring the reflection of light off them. Same way we see anything except that at a quantum (tiny) level, the particles being observed are so small that observing them changes there position.

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