• Smaile@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    Maybe they shouldn’t have been refering to it as OBSERVATION then poindexters, then you wouldn’t confuseinh the laymen and getting annoyed.

    For real, the amount of “smart” people saying this actually had an effect via human sight had me not understand how this shit worked for years, as it turned out all those ‘smart’ people turned out to just be parrots not understanding wtf they’re talking about.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      I totally agree. “Observe” was a bad choice of words, but it stuck. It should have been “interacted with”, or “measured”, or something like that.

      • bss03@infosec.pub
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        BTW, before a detector aparatus can be created, many physics results were (are?) identified through observation, which might include a measurement or might be qualitative.