Doug Sweetser
Nov14-04, 07:03 AM
<jabberwocky><div class="vbmenu_control"><a href="jabberwocky:;" onClick="newWindow=window.open('','usenetCode','toolbar=no, location=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,status=no ,width=650,height=400'); newWindow.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Usenet ASCII</TITLE></HEAD><BODY topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 BGCOLOR=#F1F1F1><table border=0 width=625><td bgcolor=midnightblue><font color=#F1F1F1>This Usenet message\'s original ASCII form: </font></td></tr><tr><td width=449><br><br><font face=courier><UL><PRE>Hello Charles:\n\nYou wrote:\n\n> All She needs is a tool or tools to remove noises (e.g.\n> virtual particle, uncertain in energy, momentum, or inaccuracy in\n> time, inaccurate ruler due to quantum spacetime fluctuation) when she\n> is forced to measure some entities.\n\nI don\'t think the Uncertainty Principle has anything to do with noise.\nIt is only about math, the fact that we need complex numbers to do\nquantum mechanics. I still remember a Harvard professor doing the\nproof, showing how to derive the Uncertainty Principle based on the\nproperties of complex numbers (a quaternion version of the same line of\nreasoning is available on my web site).\n\nPersonally I think the Planck scale is the smallest red herring ever to\nlead large schools of physicists astray.\n\ndoug\nquaternions.com\n\n</UL></PRE></font></td></tr></table></BODY><HTML>');"> <IMG SRC=/images/buttons/ip.gif BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER ALT="View this Usenet post in original ASCII form"> View this Usenet post in original ASCII form </a></div><P></jabberwocky>Hello Charles:
You wrote:
> All She needs is a tool or tools to remove noises (e.g.
> virtual particle, uncertain in energy, momentum, or inaccuracy in
> time, inaccurate ruler due to quantum spacetime fluctuation) when she
> is forced to measure some entities.
I don't think the Uncertainty Principle has anything to do with noise.
It is only about math, the fact that we need complex numbers to do
quantum mechanics. I still remember a Harvard professor doing the
proof, showing how to derive the Uncertainty Principle based on the
properties of complex numbers (a quaternion version of the same line of
reasoning is available on my web site).
Personally I think the Planck scale is the smallest red herring ever to
lead large schools of physicists astray.
doug
quaternions.com
You wrote:
> All She needs is a tool or tools to remove noises (e.g.
> virtual particle, uncertain in energy, momentum, or inaccuracy in
> time, inaccurate ruler due to quantum spacetime fluctuation) when she
> is forced to measure some entities.
I don't think the Uncertainty Principle has anything to do with noise.
It is only about math, the fact that we need complex numbers to do
quantum mechanics. I still remember a Harvard professor doing the
proof, showing how to derive the Uncertainty Principle based on the
properties of complex numbers (a quaternion version of the same line of
reasoning is available on my web site).
Personally I think the Planck scale is the smallest red herring ever to
lead large schools of physicists astray.
doug
quaternions.com