Posted: Feb 02, 2011 12:38 pm
by twistor59
Rilx wrote:You are right concerning the CI, Darkchilde, but my post was addressed to OP. "Observation" is prone to confuse people to think that it (especially human "seeing") doesn't have any physical effect to the observed.

But that implies theres something special about humans. That we have the power to make it so just by observing.


Absolutely, the measurement process is described by an interaction Hamiltonian, so there is a physical effect on the system being observed.