{"id":7649,"date":"2025-07-21T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:26:51","slug":"observer-effect-self-conscious-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/observer-effect-self-conscious-electrons\/","title":{"rendered":"Observer Effect &#8211; Self Conscious Electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Observer_effect_(physics)\">Observer Effect<\/a> is a magical explanation of particles that claims that <strong>physics changes<\/strong>, that particles act differently when you are watching them.<\/p>\n<p>Love this very clever summary by &#8220;Officer Thomas P. Starkey&#8221; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Journal_of_Irreproducible_Results\">Journal of Irreproducable Results<\/a> &#8212;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;If an electron were not being watched, <\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>it would do something different.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->So, I imagine you are wondering &#8211; How does an electron know it is being watched ?<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps &#8211; What if you watched the electron from a distance, where it wasn&#8217;t that visible? Would it still know?<\/p>\n<p>How far away to you have to be before an Electron stops acting Self Conscious?<\/p>\n<p>Yet many who were trained in particle physics do not think this is laughably absurd.<\/p>\n<p>:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observer Effect is a magical explanation of particles that claims that physics changes, that particles act differently when you are watching them. Love this very clever summary by &#8220;Officer Thomas P. Starkey&#8221; in the Journal of Irreproducable Results &#8212; &#8220;If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/observer-effect-self-conscious-electrons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,28,20,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-science","category-observations-change-ideas","category-particles","category-unobserved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmologyscience.com\/cosblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}