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I think the meme is just poking fun at the physics behind the whole thing, but in case anyone doesn’t know:
It’s called the observer effect, and it happens because:
And particularly in the double-slit experiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
So for anyone who wants to have a surface understanding of the observer effect, the wiki does a fair job of the basic explanation.
The meme is not about the observer effect or wavefunction collapse
Yeah it is. From that wiki article:
The meme is not about the double slit experiment
Look, I'm not gonna keep quoting Wikipedia at you until you get it, so believe what you want I guess
Edit: see also the title of the post
It is clearly titled "double slit".