Protein Observer

Click on residues to measure them. Each measurement collapses uncertainty—but the protein may have taken many paths to get here.

Path degeneracy: Even if the protein folds correctly, you can't know which of the many possible paths it took. The blur represents this irreducible uncertainty about energy flows.

The paradox: You can't measure energy flows without changing them. The act of observation doesn't just risk a different outcome—it means you can never know what would have happened without observation.