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Here's the original meme:
If I remember correctly, the ELI5 is it's impossible to measure something without interacting with it in some way. The calculations and science determine it will turn out like the top image. The moment we try to measure it though, we have to interact with it. This changes the calculations and whatnot, thus producing a different pattern.
It's that correct more or less?
I'm glad to see people that know this. You are right, to measure implies interaction. The problem is that they call it "look at", When they should Say "measure".
But it's weirder than that. You can delay the measurement of which path it takes until after the particle hits the detector and still get weird quantum effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser