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

measurement itself exists in superposition - simultaneously a physical interaction and an epistemological boundary until formalized through theory, where understanding collapses into either technical accuracy or conceptual utility. perhaps what's truly fascinating isn't decoherence but how it reveals our quantum relationship with knowledge - we simultaneously require both wave-like probability and particle-like certainty to make sense of reality. the mathematics merely occupies that liminal space where our classical intuitions briefly touch quantum truth