My understanding is that the tools that are used to observe it cause the wave function to collapse. Like how putting a thermometer into meat to check the temp makes a little hole.
Yep! The only way to “see” a photon is to actually absorb it. You can’t just detect it as it goes by, it has to be absorbed and reemitted, and that has an effect on it.
Until we have a solution to the wave function collapse, it kind of freaks me out.
My understanding is that the tools that are used to observe it cause the wave function to collapse. Like how putting a thermometer into meat to check the temp makes a little hole.
Yep! The only way to “see” a photon is to actually absorb it. You can’t just detect it as it goes by, it has to be absorbed and reemitted, and that has an effect on it.