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Essentially, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that the act of observation collapses a wave potentiality that makes a situation, event or object become physical. When we observe [[EMF]] waves we change the physical environment and how that is expressed in tangible ways. | Essentially, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that the act of observation collapses a wave potentiality that makes a situation, event or object become physical. When we observe [[EMF]] waves we change the physical environment and how that is expressed in tangible ways. | ||
==Observer Effect== | |||
In science, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on a phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A commonplace example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire; this is difficult to do without letting out some of the air, thus changing the pressure. This effect can be observed in many domains of physics. | |||
The observer effect on a physical process can often be reduced to insignificance by using better instruments or observation techniques.Historically, the observer effect has been confused with the uncertainty principle.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) Observer Effect]</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||