• pigup@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Fyi, there’s a lot of woo woo (edit: apparently racist term) crap out there that tries to make you believe that somehow the photons can feel that a human is watching them and they choose to behave differently as a result. This is not true. It just means that when you use a detector or some sort of probe that physically interacts with the photons they change their behavior. It’s not magic.

    • PixxlMan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 years ago

      The amount of times I’ve seen people misunderstanding this…

      When you blast something with a high powered laser it behaves differently, who knew?