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Re:'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch by ars on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:56AM (#10437206)
Observation means interaction. So a stronger light means it interacts more extensively with something else.

It does NOT mean a human. It can interact with anything, another particle even.

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Re:'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch by gpvos on Friday October 23, 2015 @08:11AM (#10438066)
Obviously it is not about observation by a human; I don't think anyone on here thinks we are special magical creatures when it comes to quantum physics.

However, not all interactions with another particle count as an observation, and I think the poster asked for a more precise description of the boundary, and why it would not be a boundary but actually appears to be a continuum.

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Re:'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch by gnaritas on Friday October 23, 2015 @12:19PM (#10439547)
> I don't think anyone on here thinks we are special magical creatures when it comes to quantum physics.

The general public does, most explanations of the double slit experiment you can find lead people to believe that mind affects reality because the word observation confuses people into thinking consciousnesses is involved.

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Re:'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch by jsprogrammer on Friday October 23, 2015 @12:37PM (#10439672)
Humans observe smells through quantum physics.
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