Originally posted by nightzip:
The observer collapsed the wave function basically by observing??

chimonology...
The very act of observation perturbed the system, causing the wave function to collapse into one of the probable state function. Wave functions itself has no physical meaning, the absolute squared of the wave function has physical meaning...basically the probability. Note...electrons are found as one entity , it cannot split up nor distributed as a wave....the true interpretation should be using probability...