It just feels like this is a practical joke. It has to be made up by physicists to test my gullibility. 

You’re trying to make me believe that my consciousness/measurement/recording is supposed to impact particle physics? Like the little magical fingers of the special light of my soul reaches out to collapse probability into outcome somehow?

I will believe a lot, I am a fairly credulous person, but that is a bridge too fucking far

Some thoughts about the observer effect:

- doesn’t require human consciousness to interfere 
- just macroscopic interference leading to decoherence
- quantum states are in “superposition” a probability cloud of states
- something like a slit experiment makes them behave like they are in a classical state; hence the observer effect
- but it’s really because we don’t experience the world as a linear combination of multiple states aka superposition

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

Updates to the universe don’t happen in a perfectly linear way, until something demands it look like it does.
By the nature of observation, we are asking for direct line to draw, and so we get it.