• In physics, the observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation. This is often the result of utilising instruments that...
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  • by the presence of the observer. Observer effect (physics), the impact of observing a physical system Probe effect, the effect on a physical system of...
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  • The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...
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  • a central role for an observer of a quantum phenomenon. The quantum mechanical observer is tied to the issue of observer effect, where a measurement necessarily...
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  • The Unruh effect (also known as the Fulling–Davies–Unruh effect) is a theoretical prediction in quantum field theory that an observer who is uniformly...
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  • programming) Observer effect (physics) (physics) Observer-expectancy effect (cognitive biases) (cognitive psychology) Occlusion effect (biology) (otology)...
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    Einselection Interference (wave propagation) Measurement problem Observer effect (physics) Quantum Darwinism Quantum decoherence Wavefunction collapse Zeno's...
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  • colloquially as a Heisenbug, by analogy with the observer effect in quantum mechanics. Observer effect (physics) Observer's paradox Event manipulation for Nondeterministic...
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    dream argument Epistemology Object (philosophy) Object permanence Observer effect (physics) Kōan Ontology Schrödinger's cat Principle of locality John Campbell...
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  • law – Adage about statistical measures (Strathern variant) Observer effect (physics) – Fact that observing a situation changes it Lucas critique – 1970s...
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  • theorem Observer effect (physics) Observer (quantum physics) Philosophy of physics Quantum cognition Quantum pseudo-telepathy Quantum Zeno effect Wigner's...
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    relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency, wavelength and amplitude of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer (as in the...
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  • Archimedean point (category History of physics)
    the alleged objectivity of the view is mythical. Bird's-eye view Observer effect (physics) Objectivity (philosophy) Objectivity (science) The Aleph (short...
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  • APS Observer, a member magazine of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Observer (general relativity) Observer (quantum physics) Observer (special...
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  • the weak principle without obeying the strong version. In classical physics, an effect cannot occur before its cause which is why solutions such as the advanced...
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  • In the social sciences (and physics and experimental physics), the observer's paradox is a situation in which the phenomenon being observed is unwittingly...
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  • philosophy and psychology Observer effect (physics) – Fact that observing a situation changes it Observer-expectancy effect – Cognitive bias of experimental subject...
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    Physics. 56 (3): 199–200. Bibcode:1988AmJPh..56..199S. doi:10.1119/1.15687. James Terrell (1989). "The Terrell Effect". American Journal of Physics....
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  • Contrarily to velocity time dilation, in which both observers measure the other as aging slower (a reciprocal effect), gravitational time dilation is not reciprocal...
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    mechanics, atomic physics, and molecular physics; optics and acoustics; condensed matter physics; high-energy particle physics and nuclear physics; and chaos...
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    the field of physics is called a physicist. Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines. Over much of the past two millennia, physics, chemistry,...
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    term "Coriolis effect", the rotating reference frame implied is almost always the Earth. Because the Earth spins, Earth-bound observers need to account...
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  • the Unruh effect and the equivalence principle applied to black-hole horizons. Close to the event horizon of a black hole, a local observer must accelerate...
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  • which are contradictory in classical mechanics: The laws of physics are the same for all observers in any inertial frame of reference relative to one another...
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    reference to an observer, measuring the change in position of the body relative to that frame with a change in time. The branch of physics describing the...
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    physics are identical for two observers who have a constant relative velocity with respect to each other." Special relativity had a profound effect on...
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  • of physics are the same for all observers. Locally, as expressed in the equivalence principle, spacetime is Minkowskian, and the laws of physics exhibit...
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  • actual difference of elapsed time between two events, as measured by observers situated at varying distances from a gravitating mass. The lower the gravitational...
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  • concept of cause and effect in which an effect precedes its cause in time and so a later event affects an earlier one. In quantum physics, the distinction...
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