Double Slit Experiment: The Observer's Eye Affecting Matter

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A friend of mine pointed out this website to me.

http://www.doubleslitexperiment.com/

The site posts an interesting theory; I'll take a quote from the sites document:
"For some unknown reason that haunts scientists, everything we perceive as having mass is just a wave of information (or possibilities) until we observe it in some way."

So I dug a little deeper, but not too deep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

The experiment states that the matter acts like a solid when observed and a wave when not observed.

This led me to think that the observer’s eye is affecting the experiment.
My rough scale comparison would be someone’s eye (roughly the size of the Earth) pointed at a photon (the size of a basketball).
Taken into account the refractive backing of the cornea, it would act as a weak convex mirror. This could reflect the light observed into an inverted phase and cancel the wave pattern of the matter. This is just a theory. Let me know what you think about this.
 
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See here for an easy explanation without the mumbo-jumbo:

http://soi.blogspot.com/2011/02/two-slit-experiment.html
 
This video might help you.

 
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