• morrowind
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    11 months ago

    idk, I’m not a quantum physicist. I’m just asking theoretically

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      11 months ago

      That doesn’t make any sense. Observation is alteration. You cannot see light without absorbing light.

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        11 months ago

        Imagine a box already there. I now change the box so it also analyzes the particles that hit it. Are they changed?

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        11 months ago

        So would a blind person would also alter the outcome if they were in the position to absorb the light? You can absorb the light without seeing it.