Attention Collapses Probability — In Physics and in Finance

Sometimes, what we observe — we change.

Read the full paper on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15101452

I’ve just published Version 2 of my conceptual paper on quantum collapse. This version presents a clearer model, a simulation, and a bolder claim: that an observer’s quantum wave might physically interfere with a particle’s wavefunction, causing it to collapse from a wide probability field into a sharper, more localized form.

Why bring this into an investment markets?

Because markets behave the same way. Attention isn’t passive. When enough investors focus on an opportunity, they change it. The market shifts. Price action collapses potential into reality. Alpha vanishes. In that sense, markets too behave like quantum systems — with attention acting as a disruptive wave.

This paper explores that cross-disciplinary analogy — and why it matters.

This isn’t just theory — it’s a way to rethink how visibility, noise, and investor focus may alter outcomes in financial systems, just as they do in quantum ones.