Observation determines outcome term?

[LinJieFu]

Main Question or Discussion Point

Is there a term to describe the phenomenon that observation seems to effect the outcome of superposition?

 

[Jolb]

The term you seem to be looking for is called the "observer effect." Terms that are also very closely related are "wavefunction collapse" and "decoherence."

 

[LinJieFu]

Thank you very much. I will research the term "observer effect".