I did do a little more looking, which stopped the particles dead. Apparently I'm destroying the universe by doing so.
Anyway who cares
It's all about building faster computers, way more important that the universe lol. Already they're running out of miniaturization, pretty soon 'they' think the transistors will be so small they'll run into quantum problems, like matter moving spontaneously through solid matter screwing up the computations (quantum tunneling, if I got that right).
It's so mysterious and downright odd. As Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Not only will the quantum computers stop working if the chips are observed, they will not 'know' how they got the answer in the first place.
Pete