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Warning: My understanding of physics is minimal let alone Quantum Mechanics so please excuse (but feel free to correct) my misunderstandings.
My understanding of the Uncertainty Principle is that because photons have to hit a particle so that we can view it, we can never be certain of position and velocity. The greater we care to know the position, the higher intensity light waves must be fired at the particle, which in turn affect the velocity.
My question, is that just because we cannot know, should this mean that particles do not have both a definite velocity and position?
Secondly, is it possible in the future that though greater understanding and discoveries of other laws of physics and the universe that we could determine the velocity and position because we no longer have to use a photon to "view" the particle, but can know where it is through some other method? Possibly similar our abilities to assume black holes and dark matter exist because we see their gravitational effects on visible matter?
Again, bear with me if I'm making some dramatic errors in my assumptions of the Uncertainty Principle. Thanks so much for the help!
My understanding of the Uncertainty Principle is that because photons have to hit a particle so that we can view it, we can never be certain of position and velocity. The greater we care to know the position, the higher intensity light waves must be fired at the particle, which in turn affect the velocity.
My question, is that just because we cannot know, should this mean that particles do not have both a definite velocity and position?
Secondly, is it possible in the future that though greater understanding and discoveries of other laws of physics and the universe that we could determine the velocity and position because we no longer have to use a photon to "view" the particle, but can know where it is through some other method? Possibly similar our abilities to assume black holes and dark matter exist because we see their gravitational effects on visible matter?
Again, bear with me if I'm making some dramatic errors in my assumptions of the Uncertainty Principle. Thanks so much for the help!