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Amadameus ago

the meaning within the findings of the double-slit experiment ... Your observation of reality changes reality.

This tells me you don't fully understand the double-slit experiment, and/or the articles you've been reading about it have been highly editorialized.

First, observation means something totally different to quantum mechanics than the typical human understanding. A better word would be interacting. At the QM level, observing a particle is the same as interacting with it. Remember the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? It states that you can know a particle's position or its speed, but not both. This comes from the fact that observing a particle's position changes its speed, and vice versa. These two variables are tied together and knowing one will prevent you from knowing the other. From Wikipedia:

In quantum mechanics, there is a common misconception (which has acquired a life of its own, giving rise to endless speculations) that it is the mind of a conscious observer that causes the observer effect in quantum processes. It is rooted in a basic misunderstanding of the meaning of the quantum wave function ψ and the quantum measurement process.