Observation determines outcome term?

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LinJieFu

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Oct 7, 2013

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

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Jolb

Oct 7, 2013

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

Oct 7, 2013

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

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