I think I have a decent grasp on the dual-slit experiment, but I don’t know how the waveforms know when to collapse into a particle. Also, what counts as an observation and what doesn’t?
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You must interact with the particle to observe it. That changes it somehow, it introduces a slight amount of energy or whatever. That collapses the wavefunction. “Observation” isn’t the best term, it’s how you make the observation that collapses it. “unobserved” means nothing has interacted with the particle.
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